Hacked Off: Ten things the press would rather you didn’t know – Brian Cathcart

• Seventy-eight per cent of the population wants independent press regulation backed by statute.

• No witness or anybody else at the Leveson Inquiry advocated state control of the press.

Ireland: And the dance goes on – Eoin O’Dell

In my previous post, I discussed a temporary injunction obtained by music promoter David Kavanagh to prevent the sale of Melanie Verwoerd’s memoir When We Dance. The book charts her Afrikaner upbringing, her marriage to the grandson of an architect of apartheid, her anti-apartheid involvement with the African National Congress, her time as South African ambassador to Ireland and as head of UNICEF Ireland, and her relationship with celebrity DJ Gerry Ryan until his unexpected death on the night of 29 April 2010.