NUJ alarm as gardaí forced Dublin-based photographic agency to hand over images of protest

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has expressed “alarm” at the latest incident in which gardaí forced a Dublin-based photographic agency to hand over images of a protest

Photo credit: The editor of RollingNews.ie, Eamonn Farrell, left, hands over a disk containg over 300 images after a warrant presented by garda Inspector Des McTiernan, of Store St Station. Picture: Rollingnews.ie

On Tuesday, a garda inspector from Store St station arrived at the offices of RollingNews.ie with a warrant for the seizure of images which one of its photojournalists had taken during a protest at O’Connell St on February 6 relating to the international refugee crisis.