NI judge defends journalists’ right to protect sources

Even by the standards of Northern Ireland’s troubles, it was shocking. As people watched Ireland’s World Cup match against Italy in a bar in rural County Down in 1994, masked loyalist gunmen burst in and opened fire.

Two years ago, a documentary about the six Catholic men murdered named their alleged killers. But instead of investigating the gunmen, police in Northern Ireland arrested the makers of the film.

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