The Jobstown Six have all been acquitted of the false imprisonment of former Tánaiste Joan Burton and her adviser Karen O’Connell.
The jury cleared all of the accused, including Solidarity TD Paul Murphy, after three hours of deliberations.
They’d been accused of trapping the women inside two Garda vehicles during a water charge protest in Jobstown in November 2014.
In the Dail chamber the outcome of the Jobstown trial has been labelled a “stunning defeat” for the government.
But Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has denied there was any government agenda at stake in its prosecution or outcome.
