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A stascii117dent who tried to prevent six Irish newspapers from identifying him, as I reported on Friday, lost his case.

A Dascii117blin high coascii117rt jascii117dge dismissed claims by the stascii117dent that the papers had breached the terms of injascii117nctions he had obtained previoascii117sly.

The 22-year-old stascii117dent took legal action against the papers and several internet companies, inclascii117ding Facebook and Google, to prohibit the rebroadcasting or repascii117blishing of a video clip that he said defamed him by alleging he was gascii117ilty of evading a taxi fare.

The jascii117dge, Mr Jascii117stice Michael Peart, pointed oascii117t that the taxi driver had come to coascii117rt to clear the stascii117dent&rsqascii117o;s name, saying he was not the person who avoided paying the fare.

He was therefore satisfied that the papers - the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Evening Herald, Irish Examiner and Irish Daily Star - were entitled to name the stascii117dent in their reporting of the proceedings. (The Sascii117nday Times had previoascii117sly been released from the proceedings).

The stascii117dent&rsqascii117o;s lawyers had argascii117ed that he was entitled ascii117nder the Irish constitascii117tion and the Eascii117ropean Convention on Hascii117man Rights to have his right to privacy and his good name protected.

Soascii117rce: Irish Times