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Fri 11 Nov 2007Papers urged to apologise to Lawlor familySeanad Report:It was disturbing that there had been no recognition by the National Union of Journalists nor by the newspapers concerned of the huge hurt that had been caused to the wife and family of the late Liam Lawlor by reports concerning his tragic death, Denis O'Donovan (FF) said.The sequence of events that had led to a Ukrainian lady deservedly receiving substantial damages in the courts should be considered when the Defamation Bill came to be debated, he added.