Court orders disclosure of any phone recordings made between gardai and civilian witnesses in case of two Limerick men charged with murder
— Courts News Ireland (@courtsnewsIRL) April 9, 2014
Tag Archives: Garda Bugging
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“It said inmates are given a confidential phone line for conversations with a named solicitor, but because some inmates had more than one solicitor representing them but only one named with the prison service, the other conversations were inadvertently recorded.”
“I am very much amused by the many people who deny knowledge of phone tapping in Garda stations. If you consider the practicalities of the initiative, someone had to assess the various bugging products available, choose one, buy it, install it, run it and then change the tapes almost daily back in the 1980s when cassette tapes were used.
As technology changed, newer equipment had to be bought, invoices approved, rubber-stamped by officials and paid out. Over the decades there must have been hundreds of gardaí involved all around the country running the system. It is not remotely conceivable that at least some gardaí at every rank in every station did not know exactly what was happening.”Joe Bergin, Naas, Co Kildare
Revelations? We’ve known about garda recordings for years (Independent.ie)
Previously: Your Garda Bugging Legal Questions Answered