FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 7, 2011 record photo, Irish vocalist Ronan Keating arrives for the Laureus Awards successful Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Keating has accepted important damages from a British tabloid paper steadfast implicit telephone hacking it was reported connected Monday, July 26, 2021. The erstwhile subordinate of boyband Boyzone is the latest successful a agelong database of celebrities whose voicemail messages were intercepted by the News of the World much than a decennary ago. Keatings lawyer told a High Court proceeding that the vocalist had identified a fig of suspicious articles published betwixt 1996 and 2011 which contained his backstage information. (AP Photo/Nousha Salimi, File)

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 7, 2011 record photo, Irish vocalist Ronan Keating arrives for the Laureus Awards successful Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Keating has accepted important damages from a British tabloid paper steadfast implicit telephone hacking it was reported connected Monday, July 26, 2021. The erstwhile subordinate of boyband Boyzone is the latest successful a agelong database of celebrities whose voicemail messages were intercepted by the News of the World much than a decennary ago. Keatings lawyer told a High Court proceeding that the vocalist had identified a fig of suspicious articles published betwixt 1996 and 2011 which contained his backstage information. (AP Photo/Nousha Salimi, File) (AP2011)

LONDON – Irish vocalist Ronan Keating connected Monday accepted “substantial damages” from a British tabloid paper steadfast implicit telephone hacking.

The erstwhile subordinate of lad set Boyzone is the latest successful a agelong database of celebrities whose mobile telephone voicemail messages were intercepted by News of the World reporters much than a decennary ago.

Keating’s lawyer, Ellen Gallagher, told a High Court proceeding that the vocalist had identified a fig of “suspicious” articles published betwixt 1996 and 2011 which helium said contained his backstage information.

Keating's suspicions astir who mightiness beryllium leaking idiosyncratic accusation to the paper “generated distrust which impacted connected his relationships and caused him sizeable distress and upset,” Gallagher said.

Ben Silverstone, lawyer for News of the World steadfast News Group Newspapers, said the institution offered “its sincere apologies to the claimant for the distress caused to him by the penetration of his privateness by individuals moving for oregon connected behalf of the News of the World.”

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“The suspect acknowledges that specified enactment should ne'er person taken spot and that it had nary close to intrude into the backstage beingness of the claimant successful this way,” helium said.

The magnitude of the damages was not disclosed.

Owner Rupert Murdoch unopen down the 168-year-old News of the World successful 2011 aft the revelation that its employees had eavesdropped connected celebrities, politicians and transgression victims. Since then, constabulary investigations, transgression trials and a nationalist enquiry person revealed that telephone hacking was wide astatine Britain’s tabloids.

News Group Newspapers and rival steadfast Trinity Mirror person some paid millions of pounds to settee lawsuits from hacking victims.

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