Seán Gallagher says he would not have taken legal action against RTÉ over the 2011 Frontline debate if it hadn't been nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award the following year.
Businessman and two time presidential candidate Seán Gallagher says he would not have taken legal action against RTÉ over thedebate if it hadn't been nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award the following year.
Mr Gallagher says before the debate in which an unverified tweet was read out to him, he was"almost unstoppable" in the polls., he said he would not have taken legal action had RTÉ not submitted the programme for an IFTA,"knowing, some of them at least, that it was founded on a fake tweet". He added:"I was caught trying to answer and recall live on television with a million people watching me."He believes that the indication he had an affiliation with Fianna Fáil, a party that"screwed the country", was extremely damaging.
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