Reading time: 2 minutes
Tralee firm Pierse McCarthy Lucey LLP Solicitors has welcomed experienced solicitor Clare Dowling to its team as an associate. Ms Dowling qualified as a solicitor in 2008, having completed her LLB in law and European studies at the University of Limerick in 2001, followed by further diplomas from th
Reading time: 2 minutes
Tralee firm Pierse McCarthy Lucey LLP Solicitors has welcomed experienced solicitor Clare Dowling to its team as an associate. Ms Dowling qualified as a solicitor in 2008, having completed her LLB in law and European studies at the University of Limerick in 2001, followed by further diplomas from th
2 minutes
Employment law firm McInnes Dunne Murphy LLP has promoted Fiona Sharkey to partner. Currently a senior associate, Ms Sharkey joined the firm in October 2023, having trained with and practised in the employment law team of a major Irish law firm.
2 minutes
Co Mayo firm J.V. Geary Solicitors LLP has appointed Patricia Lally as a partner. Ms Lally joins managing partner John Geary and fellow partner Ita Feeney in the leadership of the Castlebar-based firm amid growing demand for its legal services across the West of Ireland and beyond.
3 minutes
Philip Lee LLP has promoted Elaine Whelan, Michael Cahill, Tamara Mitchell and Keelin Gavagan to partner and Kate McNamara to of counsel. The latest round of promotions brings the firm's total number of partners to more than 50 for the first time.
1 minute
Intellectual property firm Murgitroyd has strengthened its senior leadership team with three appointments. The firm has appointed Camilla Jagger as its chief operating officer, David Goldsby as its chief technology officer and Russell Flanders as its commercial director.
2 minutes
A leading criminology expert at Ulster University has been appointed to the Probation Board for Northern Ireland. Dr Brian Payne is a senior lecturer in criminology and criminal justice, and subject lead for criminology at Ulster University.
Reading time: 2 minutes
UK government has formally commenced key provisions of Northern Ireland's identity and language legislation, granting official status to the Irish and Ulster Scots languages for the first time. Northern Ireland secretary Hilary Benn yesterday told MPs that he had commenced provisions in sections 1,
3 minutes
Belfast firm KRW LAW has been included by the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) among the small number of law firms nominated to provide legal assistance to victims of the infected blood scandal who are applying for compensation. The scheme will help to process applications for all victim
1 minute
Northern Ireland's justice minister has called for UK government action to deal with websites facilitating the sale of sexual services. Buying sex is a crime in Northern Ireland, unlike in other parts of the UK, but experts say most such transactions are now organised online.
3 minutes
Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has upheld decisions not to prosecute eight former British soldiers in relation to allegations of giving false evidence relating to the events of Bloody Sunday. Families of eight victims of the 1972 massacre requested formal reviews of the decision
3 minutes
Stuart Nevin, director at Cleaver Fulton Rankin, offers an overview of emerging trends in Northern Ireland’s real estate market. Property market forecasting is inherently uncertain. While 2025 may best be described as a “momentum-building” year for Northern Ireland, marked by stabl
Reading time: 2 minutes
A training programme for Fiosrú staff has welcomed its second cohort of students at the University of Limerick. The two-year postgraduate programme has been developed by UL School of Law in conjunction with Fiosrú, the Office of the Police Ombudsman, to support its staff learning and d
2 minutes
The University College Dublin Law Review has launched a call for submissions for its upcoming Volume XXVI. The student-run, peer-reviewed annual legal journal welcomes contributions on a broad range of contemporary legal issues, in particular articles pertaining to Irish and European law — tho
2 minutes
Ulster University students Connor Nicholas and Pearse Smith have triumphed in the Northern Ireland regional heat of the Brown Mosten International Client Consultation Competition (BM ICCC). The BM ICCC is an annual global competition for law students to practice interviewing, counselling, and proble
4 minutes
Three trainee barristers are benefitting from bespoke scholarships designed to support their studies at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS) at Queen's University Belfast. Bar trainees Emma Faulkner and Georgia Liddle have been announced as the first ever recipients of the Bar of North
3 minutes
The detail of the European Union’s long-awaited accession to the European Convention on Human Rights is like a “three-dimensional puzzle” because of the several vital and interlocking elements which need to be agreed, a new study suggests. The Treaty of Lisbon created an obligation
Reading time: 8 minutes
Visitors to Galway will be familiar with attractions such as the city’s Spanish Arch, Cathedral and Latin Quarter. Perhaps less so, however, with its reputation as a major European hub for the medical technology sector. With its established cluster of global medtech companies, strong links wit
7 minutes
Adam Synnott has the felicitous capacity to combine brisk efficiency with engaging affability. It’s a useful admixture that undoubtedly facilitates his career at EY Law Ireland, a stand-alone, regulated law firm which forms part of the global EY network. Mr Synnott, partner and head of corpora
Colin Cardwell
8 minutes
The word that regularly recurs in Constance Cassidy’s vocabulary is “busy”. Often augmented to “busy, busy, busy”. It’s hardly surprising. The senior counsel’s day has begun some five hours before our mid-morning interview and the number of appointments in h
Colin Cardwell
7 minutes
October is European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM), the EU's annual campaign dedicated to promoting cybersecurity among its citizens and organisations, and to providing current online security information. Ironically, it has coincided with Amazon Web Services (AWS) experiencing a recent major outage in
Colin Cardwell
8 minutes
The view from Andrew McGahey’s home office south of Navan in Co Meath is an idyllic one. The vista of tranquillity that takes in the Hill of Tara and the River Boyne ends here, though — the EMEA managing partner of Kennedys Law LLP is responsible for seven offices, where daily life is di
Colin Cardwell
SUBSCRIBE
