Statement re : The Irish Sun, Michael Doyle, and ICHH

Escort-Ireland.com and its parent company Lazarus Trading SL has noted with interest today’s article in “The Irish Sun”, written by Michael Doyle and based on comments from Anthony Flynn, a Director of the Charity ICHH.

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Escort-Ireland.com and its parent company Lazarus Trading SL would like to make the following statement.

– Escort-Ireland.com or its parent company Lazarus Trading SL has not received any communication from the ICHH asking for their content to be removed. We have made numerous communications to ICHH with detailed information regarding our offer of donation and further confirmation of the donation being made. This communication was responded to by the ICHH. We find the statement made by The Irish Sun and its journalists to be factually incorrect, disingenuous and intentionally deceptive in nature, intending to cause irreversible reputational damage to Lazarus Trading SL. All communications are logged by the company.

– Escort-Ireland.com’s parent company: Lazarus Trading SL made contact with the ICHH through its fundraising coordinator and has written communications from the charity where ICHH asked if they could be involved following an initial approach to raise funds. It was made very clear to the ICHH which of the Lazarus Trading SL brands they would be associated with and further communication was made after the donation was made. We find the statement made by The Irish Sun and its journalists to be factually incorrect, disingenuous and intentionally deceptive in nature, intending to cause irreversible reputational damage to Lazarus Trading SL. All communications are logged by the company.

– The Irish Sun has made a statement of fact that a Mr Peter McCormick is the owner or partial owner of Escort Ireland. We find the statement made by The Irish Sun and its journalists to be factually incorrect, disingenuous and intentionally deceptive in nature, intending to cause irreversible reputational damage to Lazarus Trading SL.

We would like to offer Mr Flynn and The Irish Sun the opportunity to correct the inaccuracies of their article and issue an apology for the poor journalistic investigation and research. Our legal team is investigating the matter.

Regarding comments from Mr Flynn of the ICHH, via The Irish Sun, which we will take at face value given the inaccurate reporting in the article, we respect the right of ICHH to change its position and will remove references to the ICHH from the homepage of our website with immediate effect.

ENDS

Update 13:16 – This release was corrected to remove an inaccuracy that the Irish Sun had not contacted us for comment. We have since located a ticket that was submitted on 19/12/16. Apologies.

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