David Norris: Trial By Media

David Norris: Trial By Media
David Norris was elected as in Irish Senator in 1987. In March 2011, he put himself forward as a nominee to become President of Ireland. Two months later, the Senator was mired in a controversy caused by the reappearance of two interviews, which he had given and that threatened to derail his presidential campaign.
"This is the cruellest thing that ever happened to me," Norris told Irish journalist Joe Jackson at the time of the original publication of one those in...