Nothing in Irish surveillance law to say it applies outside of State, Hutch defence team says

At the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on 29 November, senior counsel for Gerard Hutch argued that Irish surveillance legislation contains no provision permitting the operation of listening devices beyond the State's borders. Brendan Grehan submitted that if the Oireachtas had intended such extraterritorial scope, it would have stated this with explicit clarity in the Act. The dispute concerns recordings captured…