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	Footage filmed by undercover reporter at care home</p>
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	Assault charges against care workers, which relied on video footage filmed covertly for RT&Eacute;&rsquo;s Prime Time programme, were &ldquo;tainted with illegality&rdquo;, a barrister said in court yesterday.</p>
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	Eoin Garavan told Judge Mary Devins at a District Court sitting in Ballina that RT&Eacute; had &ldquo;recklessly revealed&rdquo; the identities of the six HSE personnel who were employed at the HSE-run &Aacute;ras Attracta centre in Swinford.</p>
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	Judge Devins heard submissions from lawyers representing the six accused on the admissibility of video evidence.</p>
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	Joan Gill, of Dublin Road, Swinford, faces five charges of assault at &Aacute;ras Attracta in mid-November last. The other five face one charge of assault each. They are Pat McLoughlin, Claremorris; Anna Ywunong Bostimbo, Charlestown; Kathleen King, Foxford, Co Mayo; Christine Delaney, Hollymount, Co Mayo; and Joan Walsh, Curry, Co Sligo.</p>
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	State Solicitor for Mayo, Vincent Deane, said the footage had been filmed by an undercover reporter. It was the sole evidence by which the State could secure a conviction, he said. The alleged victims were vulnerable intellectually disabled people who would not be able to give evidence. Judge Devins said she will announce her decision on Friday.</p>
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	<a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/accused-care-workers-challenge-use-of-video-film-1.2380072">http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/accused-care-workers-challenge-use-of-video-film-1.2380072</a></p>
