An application to compel Irish TimesEditor Geraldine Kennedy and reporter Colm Keena to disclose the source of information about the Taoiseach's finances has been adjourned for two weeks.
The adjournment was granted to allow the defence file replying affidavits.
The High Court action was taken by the Mahon tribunal in October last year.
Ms Kennedy and Mr Keena refused to answer questions from Mahon tribunal lawyers that they felt would help identify the source of the information in the article written by Mr Keena in September.
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Both journalists, citing the need to protect their sources, told the tribunal they had destroyed the documents on which the article was based, in spite of a tribunal order to produce them.