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DUBLIN (AP) — A lawmaker at the heart of Ireland's first major corruption scandal lost a defamation claim Monday against the journalist who broke the story of his illicit gifts, a revelation that has inspired mammoth state probes into the scale of under-the-table lobbying in Irish politics.A Dublin Circuit Court judge ruled that journalist Sam Smyth had reasonable grounds of evidence to describe lawmaker Michael Lowry as both a liar and a tax dodger.Lowry's lawyers had
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