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‘Agents Of This State Or Other Rogue Elements’
[Mark Kelly] “In this State, two specific agencies, Garda Special Branch and the Defence Forces Intelligence Branch (G2) have been granted specific surveillance powers under legislation (the...
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Contradictions In Terms
Justice Minister Alan Shatter spoke in the Dáil yesterday evening about the reported bugging of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission’s offices during a 5.30pm debate on the matter, saying: “It is...
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Feel The Force
From right: Kieran Fitzgerald, Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commissioner (GSOC), Carmel Foley, Commissioner GSOC, and Simon O’Brien, Chairman GSOC, arriving at the Public Service Oversight and Petitions...
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Bugs, Moles And Hacks
[Tom Clonan, top, and Stalker by John Stalker (1988)] ” I’d invite you to think about this. Simon O’Brien is a former commander in the London Metropolitan Police, so he’s a very experienced person...
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So It Begins
Lawyers for two men accused of IRA membership successfully applied to the Special Criminal Court today to have their trial adjourned “in light of recent events”. Barristers for the two men told the...
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We Were So Innocent
Alan Shatter in opposition, questions the Minister for Justice [John O'Donoghue] on bugging in Garda stations (May 23 2001) during an exchange concerning the McBrearty scandal in Donegal. Dail...
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Anything You Say
[Monaghan Garda Station] Further to the Garda bugging hooha. The latest list of Garda stations where calls were recorded, comprising the 2,500 tapes stored at Garda HQ in Phoenix Park, Dublin.....
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Shell To Ear
[Jerry Cowley apparently being filmed by a garda while he addressed a Shell to Sea protest at Bellinaboy, Co. Mayo in October, 2006] In 2007, Former Independent TD Jerry Cowley suspected his phone...
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Stand By For Action
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department has admitted it possesses and uses a controversial cellphone surveillance tool currently at the center of several legal debates across the country. The...
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