'Without a free press there is no democracy': Supreme Court rejects garda bid to access journalist's phone

The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an appeal by the Garda Commissioner challenging the quashing of a search warrant that would have allowed access to a journalist's mobile phone. The seven-judge court upheld the Court of Appeal's decision that the warrant, obtained in relation to the Strokestown eviction investigation, was invalid. Emmet Corcoran, editor of The Democrat newspaper, had his Strokestown home…