The owner of a right-wing website that is the subject of two court cases and was accused of publishing fake news has hit out at what he claims are “keyboard cowards”.

The Times reported yesterday that Leo Sherlock, who owns The Liberal.ie, had been issued with a notice of claim relating to alleged plagiarism by CCC Nuacht, a court reporting agency based in Dublin.

Mr Sherlock, who has appeared on RTE to discuss his political views and support of Donald Trump, is also being sued in the High Court by a man whose picture was incorrectly used in a story about the IRA murder of another person with the same name.

Mr Sherlock said that he intended to defend both of the actions against him.