Currently Irish law protects men and women who are applying for international protection from being identified by the media under S. 26(2) of the Internation Protection Act 2015.
If this Act is being interpreted in such a way as to prevent an Garda Síochána from apprehending a foreign suspect and bringing him to justice, then it must be changed or clarified by the Minister for Justice.
It is simply not good enough that the suspect in the murder of Jamey Carney and named today by the Irish Independent as Ahmad Al-Saqar has fled the jurisdiction and is now in believed to be in Turkey.
Urgent clarification is needed.