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Dog owners have been urged to stay vigilant after a Labrador had to be rescued from Ben Nevis after apparently ingesting discarded cannabis. Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team was called after Tokyo, a black Labrador, collapsed halfway up the mountain while walking with owner and dog trainer Christina Bl

Séamus Clarke SC has been elected as the forthcoming chair of the Council of The Bar of Ireland and will assume the role from September 14. Mr Clarke is based at the Law Library in Dublin and practises mainly in public law, including criminal, constitutional and administrative law, as well as

Walkers has announced 20 promotions across its legal and professional services businesses in Ireland.  The promotions come during a landmark year for the firm, as it celebrates 25 years in Europe and marks 10 years of Walkers Professional Services (WPS) in Ireland.

FLAC provided legal information and advice to record numbers of people in 2025, with the organisation warning that rising demand highlights growing gaps in Ireland’s civil legal aid system. The legal rights organisation’s annual report found its telephone information and referral line an

New academic analysis looks at the influence of Scottish hate crime legislation on recent Irish law reform.  The article, in the Edinburgh Law Review, focuses on the term “specific victim”, which appears in Ireland’s Criminal Justice (Hate Offences) Act 2024 but is not otherwi

A former Circuit Court judge has failed to overturn his conviction for the attempted rape and sexual abuse of six young men while he was working as a teacher three decades ago. Gerard O’Brien, 61, of Old School House, Slievenamon Road, Thurles, Co Tipperary, was convicted by a Central Criminal

The Irish Women Lawyers Association is to host its AGM next week, where the guest speaker will be award winning author Sally Hayden. This is a great chance to catch up with fellow women in law, expand your knowledge, and find out more about how IWLA can support your practice.

Four justice reforms – including a plan to expand the judiciary – remain uncommenced more than a year after being signed into law, the Courts Service's Annual Report for 2025 shows. The report details a system under sustained pressure, with rising civil litigation, growing serious crime

The Children’s Rights Alliance has welcomed preliminary findings by the European Commission that Meta may have breached EU online safety rules by failing to adequately protect children on Facebook and Instagram. The findings form part of a two-year investigation into Meta’s compliance wi

The Law Society of Ireland’s Centre for Justice and Law Reform Summer School has brought together leading international figures in law, diplomacy, security and politics to examine whether the rules-based international order can survive an age of disruption. This year’s Summer School, ent

The website 4chan has again mocked UK regulator Ofcom after it renewed demands for payment of its £520,000 Online Safety Act fine, with the platform’s lawyer responding by sending another AI-generated hamster. US lawyer Preston Byrne, who represents 4chan, said on X that Ofcom had s

Jersey is set to legalise assisted dying after its new law received royal assent. The draft Assisted Dying (Jersey) Law, approved by the States Assembly earlier this year, was granted royal assent yesterday and will come into force once it is registered by the Royal Court in the coming days.

The Metropolitan Police has agreed to pay Graham Linehan, the creator of Father Ted, £25,000 after apologising for his arrest over gender-critical posts on social media. Scotland Yard acknowledged “shortcomings in the investigation, the arrest and the imposition of bail conditions”

Criticism of a football referee’s impartiality can fall within the protection of freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. In de Carvalho Marques and Others v Portugal, the court considered six applications

Amnesty International has called for police action in response to the display of an effigy of a mosque on top of a bonfire in Moygashel, Co. Tyrone. The display and the recent proliferation of racist banners elsewhere "send a chilling message to migrant families and minority ethnic communities at a