Gemma O'Doherty challenged defamation injunction bid

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Gemma O'Doherty challenged a defamation injunction application at the High Court on 18 June 2021, while Mr Justice Senan Allen reserved his decision.

Beaumont Hospital and its director of nursing, Marie Murray, sought orders requiring her to remove allegedly defamatory videos and preventing republication.

The plaintiffs said the videos falsely alleged staff were forced to receive Covid-19 vaccines and described the hospital as a death camp. O'Doherty told the court she stood over the videos and would not be silenced, while counsel for the hospital said the case concerned alleged defamatory comments rather than her views on vaccines.