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Philip Lee has promoted five new senior associates across the firm. The new senior associates are Kevin Keenan and Patrick Egan in the corporate and commercial team, Harry O'Malley in real estate, Margaret O'Leary in planning and environmental, and Daniel Hanrahan in competition.

Beauchamps has appointed Oisín McLoughlin and David McMunn as partners in the firm's corporate, commercial and M&A group. Mr McLoughlin brings over 15 years' experience advising a broad range of international and domestic clients on corporate transactions and investments. His practice spa

Mason Hayes & Curran has published an update on the regulation of digital healthcare in the EU. The business law firm's Digital Health Mid-Year Review 2025 covers legal and regulatory developments across the EU and UK and is available for download from its website.

A total of 335 new followers joined ILN's busy LinkedIn platform last month, taking the number of followers through the 30,000 mark for the first time, with 30,187 readers now following our regular posts of jobs, events and news. The ILN website now attracts an average of 66,000 unique visitors per

Plans to limit asylum seekers' access to legal advice and representation are likely to be challenged in the EU courts, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has said. The rights body has today published its initial analysis of the general scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025, wh

More than one in 10 companies registered in the State could be struck off as the Companies Registration Office (CRO) begins to exercise new powers. The CRO gained new powers to pursue involuntary strike-off under the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024.

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DWF has recruited Liam Harnett as a partner in its Dublin office and global risks team. Mr Harnett joins DWF with extensive experience in complex commercial disputes, having previously practised at Clyde & Co, Arthur Cox and A&L Goodbody.

Prosecutors and support staff involved in investigations into Donald Trump have been sacked in what has been widely described as a purge of the US Department of Justice. Axios broke the news on Saturday that 20 people had been sacked because of their previous work on cases relating to the storming o

A bomb threat which grounded a passenger plane was found to be a hoax orchestrated by a furious mother trying to stop her married son going on holiday with his mistress. The threat was taken seriously and led to the cancellation of the flight from Dhaka, Bangladesh to Kathmandu, Nepal on Saturday,&n

Ministers are set to legislate to remove the so-called "honest belief" defence in rape trials, according to reports. The Law Reform Commission recommended a change to the existing law, set out in section 2 of the Criminal Law (Rape) Act 1981, in a report published in 2018.

Trainee solicitors from north and south of the border impressed at the International Negotiation Competition (INC) in London last week. The INC is the oldest and most renowned competition focusing on international legal negotiation for law students from all over the world.

The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland is facing a lawsuit for allegedly failing to comply with its obligations towards trans people under EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights. The Good Law Project said it was taking the legal challenge after the Commission advised an employer th

Alternative legal services provider Johnson Hana has been acquired by US-headquartered Eudia. Johnson Hana was founded in 2017 by former barrister Dan Fox and now counts Citibank, Stripe, Airbnb, X and OpenAI among its clients.

The Courts Service has set out plans to become a "genuinely bilingual" organisation with which members of the public can interact in Irish at the same level as in English. The organisation's first-ever Irish language strategy, published today, contains 44 actions across six priorities and provides a