Jennifer McCaffrey and Alison Lynch say they “explicitly refused consent” for the broadcast and that the airing of the footage has had a catastrophic impact on their ability to process their brother’s death

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Members of the family of a man filmed as he lay dead during an ambulance call out to his apartment are seeking a High Court injunction requiring Virgin Media and a film company to take the footage off air and off social media.

Bernard Slean suffered from addiction issues and when the ambulance service responded to an emergency call to the apartment owned by him and his two sisters in Ayrfield, Dublin, on October 8, 2025, he was already dead.