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In 2025, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) recorded the busiest year in its 47-year history, with growth across every frontline service. The organisation publishes its annual report this lunchtime and outlines the unprecedented levels of demand met by its teams.

Ulster University has launched a new research and educational collaboration with StructureFlow, a platform for mapping, modelling and managing complex legal structures.  Led through Ulster University’s Centre for Legal Technology, the collaboration is focused on research, teaching and ski

Leading figures from the legal, medical and financial sectors have gathered in Belfast for a major specialist conference examining best practice and emerging challenges in personal injury and healthcare litigation in Northern Ireland.

Coleraine-based Turley Legal has announced the acquisition of Martin King French & Ingram. The deal marks a significant milestone for Turley Legal as it expands its geographic footprint into Limavady, strengthening its presence across the North West and complementing its existing offices in Cole

Pope Leo XIV encountered trouble with his banking after the customer service line hung up on him. Two months into his papacy last year, Pope Leo XIV called his bank in Chicago to change his phone number and address, USA Today reports.

Gore & Grimes Solicitors has appointed Eoin Cunneen as a partner in its litigation and dispute resolution team. The firm has also welcomed Sara Hantash to its corporate team. Mr Cunneen joins its litigation team as partner. With over 25 years of post qualification experience, he has built his pr

Flynn O’Driscoll has announced that its charity partner for 2026-2028 is the Irish Youth Foundation. It is Ireland's leading charity committed to levelling the playing field for children and young people, focusing on physical and mental wellbeing, skills and employment.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has noted the adoption by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers of a political declaration reaffirming member states’ commitment to the European Convention on Human Rights and the independence of the European Court of Human Rights.

Andrea Bell has joined Diamond Heron Solicitors. Ms Bell qualified as a solicitor in 2007 and recently joined the property department at the firm.

Civil society organisations in the UK and Ireland are concerned that the new Council of Europe political declaration on migration released on the 15 May at a Council of Ministers summit in Moldova reflects a growing pattern of political pressure on how human rights are interpreted and applied. While

North Korea has reportedly amended its constitution to mandate an automatic nuclear strike if leader Kim Jong Un is assassinated or the country’s nuclear command system comes under attack. The amendment was approved by the country’s Supreme People’s Assembly after a two-day meeting

The Bar of Ireland has condemned the recent adoption of the death penalty by the Israeli parliament, subject only to limited exceptions, for individuals convicted of certain killings of Israeli citizens. Under this law, military courts may try civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and im

Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Drones now leading cause of civilian deaths in Sudan

Ireland has emerged as Europe’s leading destination for AI and technology investment, but significant AI readiness gap is emerging across Irish business, despite Ireland’s leading position as a global technology hub, according to the third William Fry Technology Report, launched today at

As a young journalist visiting Brezhnev’s sclerotic Soviet Union, I felt privileged to be shown around the huge state library in Leningrad, the second largest in the world, by one of the aged librarians who had actually worked there during the horrendous 872-day siege of the city, when the Naz