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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

Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Catherine Ardagh, travelled to New York last week on a business mission promoting Ireland as a leading EU hub for international legal business. The business mission took place over three days, Tuesday 8 to Thursday 10 September. It was organised by Ire

Venture capital funding into Irish SMEs fell by 10 per cent to €578.4m in the first half of 2026, according to the Irish Venture Capital Association VenturePulse survey published Friday in association with William Fry. While the second quarter showed an increase of over 200 per cent to &eu

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published Ireland's National Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Guidelines. The guidelines provide practical support for manufacturers as new reporting requirements under the Cyber Resilience Act came into effect across the European Union from Friday.

Justice minister Naomi Long has launched the second phase of a campaign aimed at challenging harmful misconceptions about rape and sexual violence.

Lack of suitable placements for vulnerable children has emerged as the dominant issue in the latest volume of reports on child protection proceedings published today by the Child Law Project.

Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced the addition of five new trainee solicitors to its team, marking the beginning of their journey through the firm’s two-year Trainee Solicitor Programme. This programme offers a dynamic experience across a broad spectrum of legal practice areas within a full-

The majority of children in Ireland think that it would be better to teach them about staying safe online rather than banning them from using social media. Meanwhile almost half of parents/caregivers also favour online safety education over a social media ban. These are just some of the key finding

The long-awaited Dublin Family Court Complex may finally be underway as The Journal reports that the government has awarded a contract for development of the courts. The site in Hammond Lane in Smithfield was purchased by the State in the late 1990s and was announced as the site for a new famil

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has insisted a passenger injured when a plane window broke was merely sucked towards the opening but not actually out of it.

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The Dublin Drug Treatment Court (DTC) Evaluation Report sets out that well designed drug treatment courts can reduce reoffending and drug use, but the DTC is not delivering as well as it could.

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

The Bar of Northern Ireland provided oral evidence yesterday to the Justice Committee on the Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill.

Justice minister Jim O’Callaghan yesterday launched the Government's new multi-annual Strategy to Combat Economic Crime and Corruption. The Strategy will strengthen Ireland’s ability to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute economic crime and corruption while protecting public