Trial date set for Cork Extinction Rebellion activists accused of graffiti attack on Government building

Pair were charged with criminal damage at Foreign Affairs minister Simon Coveney’s department building, Iveagh House, on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2

Orla Murphy and Zachery Lumley will be tried on July 12. File picture: Paddy Cummins/IrishPhotoDesk.ie

Two Extinction Rebellion activists will face trial in July 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 year.