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A bill to allow refugees to bring their grandparents, cousins, nephews, nieces and siblings to Ireland has moved closer to becoming law in spite of Government opposition. The International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill was approved by senators at the committee stage last night.

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Northern Ireland debt judgments and small claims have soared in total value on last year, the Belfast Telegraph reports. There were 2,186 judgments worth £5.9 million in Q3 2017, a 25 per cent increase in volume and 85 per cent increase in total value compared to Q3 2016, according to the Registry

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Facebook is inviting users to submit their private pictures as part of a new pilot programme to tackle "revenge porn", The Guardian reports. The social media giant is trying to build up a database of image "hashes" - a digital fingerprint that will allow it to identify when a private photo is being

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The overwhelming majority of Northern Ireland Prison Service staff are Protestant, according to new figures from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. Of its 1,230 staff, 957 (77 per cent) identified themselves as Protestants and just 166 (13 per cent) identified themselves as Catholi

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The Government has nominated four people for appointment as judges on the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court. Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan has been nominated for appointment to the Supreme Court, leaving the Court of Appeal which she joined in 2014.

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Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that the country's first law dealing with intersex people is inadequate. Under the Civil Status Act 2013, which was hailed as a landmark piece of legislation, sex can be left blank on a birth certificate if a child is not clearly identified as male or

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