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Article: pounds 100,000 to gag the Sunday People is a national disgrace; Sunday People's Greg Harkin on our battle for free speech.(Features)
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- The People (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2000
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THE Sunday People is engaged with the Government in a major battle over Press freedom. It follows an article - published only in our Irish editions - that triggered a massive censorship operation by MI5 and the Ministry of Defence.
Here, Sunday People reporter Greg Harkin, who wrote the story, explains the bizarre - and costly - attempts to gag us.
THEY'VE bound us, gagged us...and it's cost them an astonishing pounds 100,000. That's pounds 100,000 of Government money - YOUR money...
Enough to pay for six newly qualified nurses, three junior ...