Judge and wife granted injunction against two protesters

A temporary injunction has been granted by the High Court preventing two members of a group calling itself the “Anti Corruption Taskforce” from placing a picket on the home of a District Court judge or on the judge’s wife’s opticians business.

District Judge James Faughnan and his wife Mary McMahon sought the injunction after the group posted on Facebook that it was organising a protest outside Ms McMahon’s business on Saturday, October 22, over what one of the group’s members says was a recent decision of Judge Faughnan to jail a man for a public order offence.

The injunction, preventing picketing at the Faughan/McMahon home and business property, applies to Joe Doocey, Knocksbarrett, Ballina, and Colm Granahan, Castlereagh, Killala, both Co Mayo.