{"id":493713,"date":"2026-06-11T05:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493713\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:04:17","slug":"virgin-media-tv-has-removed-episode-featuring-mans-body-high-court-hears-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493713\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media TV has removed episode featuring man\u2019s body, High Court hears \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virgin Media<\/a> TV has removed from its streaming service an episode of a programme at the centre of a High Court<\/a> dispute over the use of footage of a man\u2019s dead body as he lay on the floor of his flat during an ambulance call out.<\/p>\n

Two sisters of the deceased, Bernard Slean, had brought proceedings over the programme, First Timers on the Frontline, after footage of their brother\u2019s body was included in one episode.<\/p>\n

Jennifer McCaffrey and Alison Lynch claim there was a trespass on the flat at Ayrfield, Dublin, on October 8th last, as well as a breach of privacy. The sisters owned the apartment jointly with their brother as part of family wishes that Bernard would live there as long as he had addiction issues, the court heard previously.<\/p>\n

The sisters\u2019 case is against Virgin and the independent filmmakers who made the series, Alley Cat Films Ltd.<\/p>\n

The sisters first wanted an injunction that the material be taken down from the streaming service and from social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alley Cat gave an undertaking last week not to publish the material pending further order, but Virgin disputed the breach of privacy claim and said there was a counterbalancing public interest in the broadcast. <\/p>\n

The court was due to hear on Wednesday the sisters\u2019 application for an injunction that the material be taken down.<\/p>\n

However, their barrister Conor Bowman told the court Virgin\u2019s director of programming, Anthony Niland, had stated in an affidavit that the episode had been taken down from the streaming service, and the material from social media, and would not be published pending resolution of the dispute.<\/p>\n

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In view of that, counsel said, it had been agreed there was no need to proceed with the injunction application.<\/p>\n

Judge Brian Cregan noted the undertakings and struck out the injunction proceedings. The alleged breach of privacy and trespass proceedings remain to be dealt with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virgin Media TV has removed from its streaming service an episode of a programme at the centre of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[73,61,60,43,58,907],"class_list":["post-493713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-high-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-social-media","tag-virgin-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493713","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=493713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}