Irish fishers’ libel case against the Guardian settled at 11th hour

Parties agree to settle claim over article about undocumented foreign workers Irish fishing industry

A libel case against the Guardian brought by two Irish fishers accused of exploiting undocumented foreign workers as cheap labour on their trawler has been settled at the 11th hour by agreement of the parties.

Lenny Hyde and Pat O'Mahony, the Cork-based owners of the Labardie Fisher vessel, sued the Guardian for libel after it published allegations made by one of their Filipino deckhands about his working conditions in 2015.