Jobstown trial: Convictions not a shoe in for ‘terrified’ Joan Burton

As six men were found not guilty of falsely imprisoning former tánaiste Joan Burton and her adviser at a water charges protest, Isabel Hayes looks at how the arguments played out. 

Nine weeks after the Jobstown protest trial opened in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court it took a jury just three hours and 10 minutes to return unanimous verdicts of not guilty.

Six men, including Solidarity TD Paul Murphy, had been on trial since April 26, charged with falsely imprisoning the then tánaiste Joan Burton and her adviser for three hours during a water charges protest in Jobstown.