In Belgium the newspapers won a case against Google linking and quoting their papers in Google News[1]. Of course it didn't work out that well[2].

I'm not saying it is right, nor sensible, but Irish law isn't US law (having said that under Australian law - which is fairly closely related to Irish law - this wouldn't be legal.)

[1] http://hyperom.com/2011/07/16/belgian-newspapers-sued-google...

[2] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110718/16394915157/belgia...