Legal history made after first conviction using Garda body-cam evidence from Coolock riots

Garda body-cam footage has been used for the first time in a court case for the prosecution of citizen journalist Philip Dwyer for failing to obey a direction to move on during riots in Coolock, Dublin, last year.

The prominent anti-immigration activist made legal history as he was handed a two-month suspended sentence by Judge John Hughes at Dublin District Court on Thursday.

Dwyer, 56, a father of three from Tallaght Cross West, Tallaght, Dublin 24, denied failing to comply with a garda direction and refusing to give gardaí his name and address under the Public Order Act on July 15th at Malahide Road.

There had been unrest in the area after the Government announced plans to use the disused Crown Paints factory to accommodate hundreds of international protection applicants.

Dwyer, who could have faced six months in jail, unsuccessfully ran in last year’s European, general and local elections and campaigned for tighter immigration controls.

Following legal submissions by defence…

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