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Dublin City University (DCU) has awarded honorary doctorates to Good Friday Agreement signatories Bertie Ahern and Professor Monica McWilliams. The former Taoiseach and the co-founder of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition were both conferred the award of Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa).

Emergency legislation is needed to prevent thousands of divorcees from losing hundreds of thousands of euros in payments as a result of changes to EU law, the Law Society of Ireland has said. The Law Society today said it has alerted the Pensions Authority and practitioners to the serious effect of

Almost three-quarters of Irish tech companies would use generative AI like ChatGPT in their business, according to a survey by business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran. The survey also found that sales and marketing is the business function most likely to be affected by AI in the future (31 per ce

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Incremental reforms to drugs laws in Ireland have arguably resulted in "little or no practical change" and there is a "lack of political will to implement more radical solutions", according to a new report. The Working To Decriminalise People Who Use Drugs report describes how five different jurisdi

A perfect replica of the famous "General Lee" car from US TV show The Dukes of Hazzard has been written off following a crash. In what might have resembled a stunt from the TV show gone awry, the car left a highway in southern Missouri and struck a tree.

UK NGO JUSTICE has been granted permission to intervene in the English Court of Appeal case: U3 v Secretary of State for the Home Department. The case concerns the deprivation of UK citizenship of a woman – U3 – and refusal to allow her to re-enter the country, both for reasons of nation

West Cork-based law firm Hallissey & Partners LLP has promoted Maura Crean to partner in the firm. A graduate of University College Cork, Ms Crean has over 12 years’ experience with the firm. Prior to that, she worked as a corporate lawyer and in-house counsel for several multinationals, i

Matheson LLP has promoted 14 lawyers to partner across nine practice areas, bringing the firm's total number of partners and tax principals to 121. The new partners are Robert Barrett, Enda Garvey and Robert Maloney Derham in the corporate M&A team; Conor Blennerhassett in corporate energy and i

Apple is no longer facing an EU investigation over whether its imposition of its own in-app purchases system on app developers breaches competition law. The European Commission this week sent a revised statement of objections to Apple in relation to a complaint raised by music streaming service Spot

The Bar of Northern Ireland has called for a "whole society approach" to tackling domestic abuse at a conference marking one year since the commencement of landmark legislation. More than 200 legal and lay professionals attended the conference marking the anniversary of the Domestic Abuse and Civil

There are close to 300 children in the State whose mothers are imprisoned, with devastating effects on the children and their families, according to a new report. The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) estimates that 278 children are impacted by maternal imprisonment and recommends that the courts take

New X-ray body scanners are set to be introduced in Northern Ireland prisons to tackle the trafficking of illegal contraband including drugs. The scanners are similar to those which have already been introduced in England, Wales and Scotland, the Northern Ireland Prison Service said.

A New York lawyer who defended drug kingpin El Chapo and billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has launched a new career as a musician. Mariel Colón Miró's debut single La Abogada — Spanish for "The Lawyer" — tells the story of a young woman lawyer who falls in love with h

Callan Tansey Solicitors LLP has promoted Joanne Leetch to the position of senior associate. Ms Leetch specialises in conveyancing, landlord and tenant law and probate, with particular expertise in trusts and estate planning.