nwl(@nwl88444048):In 2006 MI5 and PSNI were illegally spying on BBC journalist Vincent Kearney. In 2006, two senior PSNI officers from N Ireland, visiting the MI5 HQ in London, happened to observe Jeffrey Donaldson entering a gay sex premises (sauna) about two kilometres from the MI5 HQ. At a time when the British state was desperate to get Donaldson's party the DUP - party of Ian Paisley and "Save Ulster from Sodomy" etc - into a power-sharing assembly with Sinn Féin in N Ireland. And around exactly the same time as up-and-coming DUP politician Paul Berry parted ways with the DUP after a male-massage in a hotel. The PSNI officers kept their observation to themselves for two decades, so they did.

2026.07.23 14:34

In 2006 MI5 and PSNI were illegally spying on BBC journalist Vincent Kearney. In 2006, two senior PSNI officers from N Ireland, visiting the MI5 HQ in London, happened to observe Jeffrey Donaldson entering a gay sex premises (sauna) about two kilometres from the MI5 HQ. At a time when the British state was desperate to get Donaldson's party the DUP - party of Ian Paisley and "Save Ulster from Sodomy" etc - into a power-sharing assembly with Sinn Féin in N Ireland. And around exactly the same time as up-and-coming DUP politician Paul Berry parted ways with the DUP after a male-massage in a hotel. The PSNI officers kept their observation to themselves for two decades, so they did.

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2026.07.23 13:35

MI5 and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have been ordered to pay £20,000 in damages to a journalist, after they illegally obtained his phone records.