Gardaí in ‘Stasi-like’ hunt for reporters’ sources

Crime reporters working for Irish newspapers have expressed concern about increasing levels of Garda monitoring of their mobile phone calls in an attempt to identify Garda sources.

Crime correspondents have also complained that they are being threatened with arrest in an attempt to reveal their sources.

A report in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper cited several journalists employed by Irish newspapers who have been alarmed at a recent crackdown by gardaí on their investigative work.