Extinction Rebellion activists from Cork to face trial for graffiti attack on Govt building

The court heard that the incident was allegedly filmed and live-streamed on the Extinction Rebellion Cork's Facebook page

Zac Lumley (left) and Orla Murphy (centre) outside the Criminal Courts of Justice with supporters from Extinction Rebellion. Picture: Colin Keegan

Two Extinction Rebellion activists will go on trial in February over a live-streamed graffiti attack at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin.

Gardaí arrested Orla Murphy, 20, with an address at Ballinacarrig, Whitechurch, Co. Cork and 21-year-old Oxford University biology student Zachery Lumley, from South Lodge Ballinlough, Cork City, on the afternoon of March 19 last.