Kevin Lunney trial: Mass retention of mobile data 'not a breach of anything'

Michael O'Higgins SC is arguing that mobile phone evidence the prosecution intends to use against his client should be ruled as inadmissible

Kevin Lunney has told the court that he was bundled into the boot of a car near his home and driven to a container where he was threatened and told to resign as a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings. File photo

Gardaí have repeatedly broken the law by accessing illegally retained mobile phone data, a barrister has argued at the trial of four men accused of falsely imprisoning and causing serious harm to Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney.

Michael O'Higgins SC told the Special Criminal Court this morning that despite a finding by the Court of Justice of the European Union that mass retention of phone data is a serious breach of citizens' privacy rights, the government has done nothing.