A tribunal is looking at whether police acted illegally by obtaining journalists communications data.
Journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney have brought the case after their homes and offices were raided in 2018
Six Catholic men were shot dead by loyalist gunmen as they watched a World Cup match in the County Down village in 1994. The journalists worked on a documentary which investigated collusion in the 1994 Loughinisland killings Because the police had acted secretly, he said the safeguards to protect sources had been bypassed and the journalists had been unable to challenge the police actions.
He said journalists would have been unaware that their numbers had been added to a database of searches after they had contacted the press office.He said the officer who led the investigation, Darren Ellis, had been motivated by “animus and unjustified antipathy” towards the journalists and the documentary.The PSNI’s barrister Cathryn McGahey KC said while the need to protect journalists' sources was accepted, that protection was “not absolute”.
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