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The Council of The Bar of Ireland has issued a statement on the ongoing withdrawal of services by certain solicitors following the introduction of the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 on 1st July 2026. The full text is published below. The Bar of Ireland previously rais
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MSM Law has announced two internal promotions. Oran Clarke has qualified as a solicitor and now works across the criminal law, family law and litigation departments. Rebecca Sloan has progressed to apprentice solicitor within the family law team.
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UCD Sutherland School of Law has appointed Dr Katie Nolan as lecturer and assistant professor in law and technology.
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The Central Bank of Ireland has announced the appointment of Simon Sloan as director of strategy and governance. Mr Sloan brings a wealth of experience from both inside and outside of the Central Bank. Since joining the Central Bank in 2011, he has held a number of leadership roles across ass
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Mullany Walsh Maxwells LLP has announced the appointment of Lynda Lucey and Conor Mullins as associates of the firm. Ms Lucey joined the firm in 2024 and practises in the litigation and employment law department. She has experience advising clients across a broad range of contentious matters, includ
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Paddy Rath has joined Arthur Cox LLP as partner in the structured finance and securitisation group. Mr Rath brings experience advising on structured finance and securitisation transactions, with a particular focus on collateralised loan obligations, private credit and asset-based finance. He advises
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William Fry has appointed Donal O'Byrne as a partner in its investment funds team, based in the firm's Cork office. Mr O’Byrne joins the firm from Matheson, where he spent more than 18 years, most recently as a partner in its asset management department. A financial services lawyer, he a
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MSM Law has announced two internal promotions. Oran Clarke has qualified as a solicitor and now works across the criminal law, family law and litigation departments. Rebecca Sloan has progressed to apprentice solicitor within the family law team.
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The NI Assembly debated the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill yesterday. Introduced by Upper Bann MLA and Alliance deputy leader Eóin Tennyson the Bill would create an offence of the provision of conversion therapy with the intent of changing or supressing a person’s sex
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Northern Ireland’s labour market has continued to demonstrate resilience, maintaining a broadly stable trajectory despite a challenging economic environment.
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PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boucher has issued a public apology to former chief inspector Ursula Merrick who was successful in claims before the employment tribunal in 2023 that she had been discriminated against on grounds of her sex and disability. Ms Merrick had joined the then RUC in 1993. Af
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The Animal Law Foundation (TALF) has threatened legal action against the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), alleging a systemic failure to properly safeguard farmed animals through the official controls required by law.
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UCD Sutherland School of Law has appointed Dr Katie Nolan as lecturer and assistant professor in law and technology.
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Queens University Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden, UCD Professor Emeritus Marie Keenan and Dr James Gallen of Dublin City University have received the European Society of Criminology / Association Europeenne de Criminologie book prize for the book they co-authored Transforming Justice Res
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An Coimisiún Toghcháin has called for a major push to increase voter registration for the new 6-seat Seanad Higher Education constituency after finding that just 71,850 people are currently registered to vote from a potential eligible electorate estimated at between 800,000 and one mi
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Professor Kathryn McNeilly of QUB School of Law has been elected as a fellow to the Academy of Social Sciences Professor McNeilly’s research intersects the areas of public international law, international human rights law and international legal theory, with recent research leading development
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University College Cork is welcoming six new academic colleagues to the School of Law this semester.
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Ireland’s role as one of the world’s leading aircraft leasing hubs dates to 1975, when the billionaire businessman Tony Ryan founded Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) in 1975. Ryan, of course, was also one of the co-founders of Ryanair in 1984. His venture created a pool of experienced aviati
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When Majella Walsh was announced as the recipient of the Munster Regional Sole Practitioner of the Year award at the LEAP Irish Law Awards last month, she says her first reaction was one of some surprise. Those who know her professionally would not have been startled at the news. Noted by clients fo
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Many parents have long had ambitions for their children to pursue careers in medicine or law, professions that are perceived as being synonymous with prestige, intellectual challenge and public service. John Magee, a partner at DLA Piper in Dublin, was seriously considering a career in medicine unti
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For solicitors who started their career just before the financial crisis of 2008 struck, the timing was both daunting and defining. Newly qualified lawyers were entering a profession gripped by uncertainty in an Ireland faced by economic turbulence. However, there emerged from that singular event a
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For Anne-Marie Linehan, the past couple of years at J.W. O'Donovan LLP have resembled the proverbial situation when three buses arrive at the same time. First, in 2024 and after 93 years the firm relocated to new premises in Cork's South Mall, reflecting its ongoing commitment to supporting clients
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