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Police spied on journalists

January 6, 2025 Anton McCabe (National Executive Council, National Union of Journalists – personal capacity)

Three police forces are found to have spied on Northern Ireland journalists Trevor Birney, Barry McCaffrey and Vincent Kearney. The same police spied on an un-named Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman employee. The police forces were […]

No to state repression!

December 1, 2020 Maurice Pollock

The carefully constructed image of the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) as a modern, impartial, and professional police force was tarnished by their aggressive treatment of anti-racist protestors. At the height of the BLM […]