Former Maynooth University students Jobitha Prince and David Rattigan have been awarded a six-month internship in the asset management and investment funds department at Matheson. Mr Rattigan, from Sligo, and Ms Prince, from Meath, received the internship award on the basis of their results on the f
Appointments
See all articlesAll-Ireland law firm PA Duffy & Co Solicitors has appointed Enda McGarrity as a director, making the 28-year-old the firm's youngest-ever partner. Mr McGarrity graduated from Queen's University Belfast in 2018 and qualified as a solicitor in 2021.
O’Flynn Exhams LLP has welcomed former trainee Niamh Carey back to the firm as an associate. The Blarney native completed her solicitor training at OFX in 2022 after studying for a bachelors in law and French at UCC and graduating with a master's in European law from the College of Europe, Bru
Dermot Kelly has been elected as president of the Southern Law Association (SLA). Mr Kelly, a partner in the commercial and conveyancing department of T.J. Hegarty LLP Solicitors, succeeded John Fuller as president at the association's 2024 AGM at the Imperial Hotel on Wednesday evening.
Belfast-based commercial law firm Davidson McDonnell has appointed Alastair Keith as a director in the firm's corporate team.
Dillon Eustace has promoted five to the position of of counsel and three to the position of associate.
HHD Solicitors has appointed Joanne Moore as an associate solicitor in the firm's conveyancing department. Writing on LinkedIn, the firm said: "Joanne brings a wealth of experience and expertise of the conveyancing process and her enthusiasm for exceptional client care will be a tremendous asset to
Northern Ireland
See all articlesAll-Ireland law firm PA Duffy & Co Solicitors has appointed Enda McGarrity as a director, making the 28-year-old the firm's youngest-ever partner. Mr McGarrity graduated from Queen's University Belfast in 2018 and qualified as a solicitor in 2021.
The UK's electoral watchdog has imposed a £250 fine on the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) following an investigation into its accounting records. The party failed to keep accounting records that were sufficient to show and explain the party's transactions.
Belfast-based firm Millar McCall Wylie has reported a 12 per cent increase in turnover and a "significant" increase in profit. The independently-owned Northern Ireland firm has not published figures, but says it has already surpassed a five-year target for 50 per cent growth which it set in 2021, ha
An honorary law doctorate has been conferred by Queen's University Belfast on the US special envoy for Northern Ireland, Joe Kennedy III. Dr Kennedy, a former congressman and a father of two, received two prestigious honorary doctorates from Queen's and Ulster University at a special ceremony in Sto
A coroner in Northern Ireland has determined that the use of lethal force by British Army soldiers which led to the shooting and subsequent death of Francis Bradley in 1986 was justified, reasonable and appropriate. Delivering judgment for the High Court, His Honour Judge Peter Irvine KC highlighted
Universities
See all articlesFormer Maynooth University students Jobitha Prince and David Rattigan have been awarded a six-month internship in the asset management and investment funds department at Matheson. Mr Rattigan, from Sligo, and Ms Prince, from Meath, received the internship award on the basis of their results on the f
A team of trainee solicitors from the Law Society of Ireland have won the 7th Ad Hoc Negotiation Competition in Dubai. Borbála Gyenge, Jennifer Maguire and Ruby Porter took first place in the competition, organised by ADR ODR International and the European Institute for Conflict Resolution (E
An honorary law doctorate has been conferred by Queen's University Belfast on the US special envoy for Northern Ireland, Joe Kennedy III. Dr Kennedy, a former congressman and a father of two, received two prestigious honorary doctorates from Queen's and Ulster University at a special ceremony in Sto
Transition Year students have been invited to enter the Law Society of Ireland's 2025 Gráinne O'Neill Memorial Legal Essay Competition. To enter, students are asked to submit a 1,500-word essay examining "the role the law can play in addressing hate crime" by Friday 22 November.
Mason Hayes & Curran has partnered with the Trinity Corporate Governance Lab as its legal knowledge partner. The Corporate Governance Lab, an initiative of the Business School at Trinity College Dublin, explores and defines corporate governance best practice. It aims to bridge the gap between ac
Interviews
See all articlesBarristers appearing in the most serious criminal cases in Northern Ireland are effectively being asked to do twice the work for half the pay they were getting two decades ago, the chairperson of the Bar of Northern Ireland has told Irish Legal News. Donal Lunny KC, who took up office in September,
It’s a long way — in every sense — from swimming in the sea off Australia’s fabled Bondi Beach to a dive into the dramatically more glacial waters off Sandycove, south-east of the city of Dublin. Dannie Hanna, a senior member of Taylor Wessing's corporate team, has however sh
ILN's Connor Beaton talks to Philippa Greer about how UNRWA is battling to preserve international humanitarian law in Gaza, where at least 42,800 Palestinians have now been killed in Israel's military response to the October 7 attack. Philippa Greer had already accepted the top job in UNRWA’s
When Marie O'Brien spoke to Irish Legal News, it was from a hotel half an hour away from Istanbul Airport, a major international hub and the second busiest airport in Europe. The location was an appropriate one: the partner and head of the finance department at A&L Goodbody in Dublin is also the
If, as Shakespeare nearly said, some are born lawyers… and some have the law thrust upon them, Flor McCarthy certainly appears to fit the latter. The Clonakilty-based solicitor is managing partner at McCarthy + Co LLP, which was founded by his mother Ann in 1987. Ann had, unusually, re-qualif