Instead they were released on Friday afternoon on extended bail to be returned for further questioning on March 1st. “We had naively hoped that the PSNI would lift the threat of prosecution against Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey,” said NUJ head Seamus Dooley. “The decision to extend bail until March 1st is a continued threat to the liberty of two investigative journalists. A group of about 50 journalists, led by Mr Dooley, staged a protest against the arrests outside Musgrave Street station as Birney and McCaffrey arrived for questioning. Durham Constabulary then stood by its statement that it was acting on foot of a complaint from the ombudsman’s office.

Source: The Irish Times November 30, 2018 17:58 UTC