was killed off in Dallas, Patrick Duffy, who had played the part, and O'Malley formed a partnership in the film production company European Motion Pictures. In 1992 O'Malley sued Rupert Murdoch, Gill and McMillan/WH Allen and The Sunday Press for criminal libel, over an article which appeared on the front page of the News of the World and was copied in subsequent publications, which linked O'Malley and Patrick Duffy with the IRA. The case was settled on the steps of Ireland's High Court, with Murdoch - who appeared to have taken a personal interest in the case - accepting "that there was no truth whatsoever in the News of The World article which we published on our front page", resulting in Murdoch et al paying O'Malley a sum plus costs, which at the time was "the highest libel settlement in the history of the Irish State". In the mid-1990s, O'Malley was cast as Debra Winger's husband in the ill-fated feature Divine Rapture, which also starred Marlon Brando, John Hurt and Johnny Depp. The production collapsed a few weeks into filming when Orion, the major Los Angeles production company backing the film, suddenly went bankrupt. O'Malley lived in Los Angeles for many years and after the collapse of Divine Rapture remained close to Brando. O'Malley and Brando were working on a film version of The Merchant of Venice - with Brando due to play Shylock - when Brando died. On Brando's death the project went into turnaround and was subsequently picked up with Al Pacino as Shylock. O'Malley bowed out and was not involved in the production of the Pacino film. In 2011, O'Malley returned to the stage, appearing as Father Jack in a UK production of Brien Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa and as trade unionist John Rainey in an acclaimed London production of Irving's Mixed Marriage. Michael Billington of The Guardian described O'Malley's performance as "magnificent" in "the most compelling play in London". In late 2014, O'Malley appeared as Big Daddy in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre. O'Malley was nominated as Best Actor at The MTA Theatre Awards - MTA stated "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof seethes with unhappy people circling the central character, patriarch Big Daddy. Daragh O’Malley blisters his way through this famous role like a raging bull with great physical presence tempered by emotional vulnerability". The Times called O'Malley's performance