A seven-member, cross-party Irish delegation has urged Dublin to send observers to the German trial of the Ulm Five and raise Daniel Tatlow-Devally's detention with Chancellor Friedrich Merz; three delegation members visited the Irish defendant in prison after attending Wednesday's hearing in Stuttgart. [1]

Sinn Fein lawmaker Mairead Farrell said Tatlow-Devally spends 23 hours a day in his cell, receives one hour of visitation a month, and communicates with lawyers through a glass wall, while German court representatives said detention conditions were warranted by the charges and a higher regional court cited flight risk when continuing pretrial detention. [1]

Prosecutors accuse the five activists of trespass, property destruction, and membership in a criminal organization after an alleged attack on an Elbit Systems site in Ulm caused about EUR1 million in damage, and the defendants face up to five years in prison; those charges and reported conditions make observation consequential without establishing an unfair trial or unlawful detention. [1]

The request remains a request: Ireland had not committed observers by the cutoff, Germany had not supplied a new response, no verdict, appeal, or remedy existed, and the candidate-specific X query timed out, leaving activist reaction unretrieved rather than silent.

Observers could create a regular record of access, detention, evidence, and procedure without deciding the case; useful diplomatic pressure makes later claims testable.

-- CHARLES ASHFORD, London