Graham Dwyer

Government move to force stopgap data retention and amendment that could gag discussion on complaints prolong history of State bungling on data protection

Helen McEntee made move following court ruling on legal challenge by convicted murderer Graham Dwyer

Amendment will make disclosure of information deemed ‘confidential’ by Data Protection Commission an offence

Department of Justice has ‘no comment’ on allegation by Digital Rights Ireland

Caolan Smyth (30) and Gary McAreavey (55) are asking the court to quash their convictions and to reject phone data as inadmissible

Appeals are likely to have implications for any potential Supreme Court appeal by Graham Dwyer

Case raises issues about correct balance between data privacy rights and effective prosecution of serious crime

Cases involving man convicted of murdering Elaine O’Hara were before five different courts in eight years

Lawyers argued outcome of 2015 trial unsafe but prosecution insisted there was ‘overwhelming’ evidence to support it

Phone call data evidence ‘not that significant’ and was just ‘icing’ on the prosecution case against Dwyer, court said

District Court will need an estimated four days a week to hear Garda applications to retain/access phone metadata

Graham Dwyer case is a consequence of Government inaction on data laws

Court has reserved judgement in Dwyer’s appeal against his conviction for the murder of care worker Elaine O’Hara in 2012

Counsel for convicted killer says ‘everything’ European court said about dangers of data retention had happened in his client’s case

Dwyer to rely on phone metadata ruling in bid to overturn conviction

Appeal against 2015 conviction for murder of Elaine O’Hara is scheduled to last two days

New Bill over phone metadata retention expected to become law next week

Gardaí will be permitted to ‘quick freeze’ data for use as evidence

Evidence to be used as part of potential International Criminal Court prosecutions

ECJ ruling will boost his appeal against conviction, but he has obstacles to overcome

Karlin Lillington: We just go round and round failing to address serious data issues

Ruling will change working methods rather than set back investigations, say gardaí

The Government cannot be surprised by a European court decision that it was warned about eight years ago

Few expect Dwyer to benefit personally from ECJ’s mobile phone metadata ruling

Judgment has potentially significant adverse implications for fight against serious crime

Concerns in Sligo that killer’s unrelated action may block search for stolen phone ‘unfounded’

Constitutional law expert represented State in opposing Graham Dwyer data case

Three men were convicted by SCC of abduction and causing serious harm

Mobile phone evidence likely to be contested while lengthy sentences have ‘raised eyebrows’ among lawyers

Net Results: Inability to take data protection seriously is damaging Ireland’s reputation

Net Results: In light of phone data case Ireland has a cheek telling UK to abide by ECJ

Senior judicial adviser to ECJ gave opinion that Irish data regime breaches EU law

ECJ adviser’s opinion has serious implications for prosecution of serious crime in EU

Concern that new restrictions would have profound impact on future investigations

Retention of phone location data only permitted for serious national security threats

Opinion may have significant influence on the addressing of data rights issues in Ireland

Investigators using search warrants to obtain data in serious criminal matters

In the News podcast: How a series of legal rulings help and hinder his case

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Failure to disclose Seanad debate participation was ‘genuine oversight’, Eugene Regan says