Tribunal to probe claims of PSNI spying on journalists including RTÉ’s Vincent Kearney
A judicial tribunal will later examine allegations of widespread police spying on journalists.
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in London is to probe claims that investigative reporters in Northern Ireland were subject to unlawful covert intelligence by the police.
The actions of three police forces – the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Durham Constabulary and London’s Metropolitan Police – are set to be scrutinised.
A complaint was initially brought to the IPT by documentary makers Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney, who were controversially arrested in 2018 as part of a police investigation into the alleged leaking of a confidential document that appeared in a film they made on a Troubles massacre.
Preparatory hearings before the IPT subsequently have heard further claims that PSNI spying operations extended to several other reporters operating in the region.
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