Er - so there is a fair use defence for using short quotations from articles, but linking to the source so that the reader can see the whole context of the quote may be a copyright infringement? Sounds really sensible to me.
Annoying the US constitution is nicer about copyright, since it says that copyright is explicitly for limited time, and that it's to benefit the arts & sciences. Whereas the European Charter of Fundamental Freedoms (which was only enacted recently), just states that "Intellectual property shall be respected". No limits, no purposes. ☹
So if they had used quotes from the article they could genuinely be in trouble.
This matter is country-level, internal to Ireland. In Ireland, they have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing See, for example, notes here http://www.poetryireland.ie/resources/copyright.html under ``Reproducing copyrighted material'', which mentions a citation of 5% of magazine article falls under Fair Dealing protection.
I don't know whether there's EU-wide fair use, but there seems to be in member countries. For example, in my home Poland, we have http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozwolony_użytek