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Jude Bunting KC, representing the BBC and Kearney, who now works for RTÉ, told the tribunal that MI5 had conceded that it unlawfully accessed Kearney's communications data in 2006 and 2009. It passed the data on to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). "This appears to be the first time in any tribunal proceedings that MI5 has accepted any interference with journalists' communications data and publicly accepted doing so unlawfully," he said.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland kept inspectors from the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office (IPCO) in the dark about two covert operations against journalists in 2018 and 2023, it has been disclosed. Brian Leveson, the investigatory powers commissioner, confirmed in a letter to Northern Ireland's policing board that the PSNI only informed IPCO about the covert operations in 2025, after they had become public.

"The issue surrounding the 1997 murder of Sean Brown raises deep concerns about the appropriateness of promoting the PSNI in GAA match day programmes while justice remains unresolved."

Images show PSNI armed response officers at a Rutland Street house, with specialist officers restraining dogs as a woman was attacked and bitten requiring medical attention.