Man who shared video ‘not aware’ of Michaela McAreavey chants, tribunal told

Andrew McDade arrives at Killymeal House in the Belfast Gasworks, Belfast, where he is challenging his dismissal from the Norman Emerson Group Limited over a video clip he filmed on Facebook Live of people singing offensive lyrics around the murder of Co Tyrone school teacher Micheala McAreavey. (Liam McBurney/PA)

A lorry driver has claimed he was “not aware” of offensive chanting about murder victim Michaela McAreavey when he streamed a video from a Co Down Orange Hall.

Andrew McDade made the claim at an industrial tribunal as he challenged the decision by his former employer to dismiss him in the aftermath of the Facebook Live broadcast last May.