Madam, – As a career photographer since the mid 1960s, it is with sadness I write that it is now urgently necessary for the Government to introduce a privacy bill. The behaviour of some people who call themselves photographers and videographers – usually attached to the tabloid press – but also to some of the so-called “respectable media”, is depressing and sometimes just disgusting.
The Lillis trial is just the latest in a long list of recent judicial events that have attracted these toerags! Invasive attempts to photograph a motherless 17-year-old girl with her loving father during his last days of freedom just plumbs the depths.
The Irish courts system and its participants, unwilling or otherwise, should be respected, as justice will eventually prevail. Where has the “auld decency” towards our fellow citizens gone to? – Yours, etc,