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President Michael D. Higgins has signed into law legislation providing for access to abortion on request up to 12 weeks. The Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 comes six months after the referendum on the repeal of the Eighth Amendment and a year after its central provisions we

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The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has announced that its executive director, Deirdre Malone, will be leaving her post in February. Ms Malone, who previously worked as a barrister in private practice, has held the post since March 2014 but will now leave to take up a new opportunity. Deputy executi

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This year marked the launch of our weekly Irish Legal Heritage feature, in which Seosamh Gráinséir looks at the people, events, laws and cases that have shaped Irish legal history. Here, we link back to all of this year's instalments. Irish Legal Heritage: The first Irish witch and her

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Irish Legal News' extremely popular 'And finally...' slot enjoyed another year of bizarre and funny stories. Listed below are the 10 our readers enjoyed most. And finally… str**k off

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A flight attendant who was forced to apologise on his knees to the airline chairman's daughter for serving her nuts in a bag and not on a plate has won £14,000 in compensation. Park Chang-jin was subjected to a stream of verbal abuse from Cho Hyun-ah, eldest daughter of Korean Air chairman Cho

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