{"id":43283,"date":"2025-09-25T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/43283\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:22:10","slug":"self-described-citizen-journalist-and-youtuber-who-goaded-asylum-seekers-becomes-first-to-be-jailed-under-law-protecting-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/43283\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-described citizen journalist and YouTuber who goaded asylum seekers becomes first to be jailed under law protecting identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Nolan (36) of Mount Eagle Square, Leopardstown, D18. Photo: Tom Tuite\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b7acae15-ca56-4f6e-bd6e-926dce6b0e46.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Paul Nolan (36) of Mount Eagle Square, Leopardstown, D18. Photo: Tom Tuite<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A self-described citizen journalist and YouTuber has become the first person to be jailed in a landmark case for online posts that risked identifying asylum seekers in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Paul Nolan, 36, stood outside the IPAS centre, St John&#8217;s House, High Street, Tallaght, Dublin 24, on August 22 and 26 last year, and questioned teenage boys, a young woman, and three middle-aged men who were staying at the facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Nolan (36) of Mount Eagle Square, Leopardstown, D18. Photo: Tom Tuite A self-described citizen journalist and YouTuber&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-43283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}