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A scheme designed to bring 500 people from Afghanistan to Ireland has been criticised after the first tranche of just 22 approvals was issued nearly a year after it was set up.

A charity cycle sponsored by RDJ has raised more than €26,000 for Marymount University Hospital and Hospice.

A brand-new moot court facility has been officially opened by Northern Ireland’s Lady Chief Justice, Dame Siobhan Keegan, at Ulster University’s new Belfast campus. One of several specialist learning spaces on the expanded city centre campus, the moot court will be open for use by the un

Legislation providing for official recognition of the Irish language in Northern Ireland for the first time has received royal assent. The Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill grants official status to the Irish language as part of a package of measures to promote and respect Northern Irela

Seven local authorities have been asked to prepare and implement an equality and action plan on the provision of Traveller accommodation and services. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is making the request of local authorities in South Dublin, Limerick City and County, Tipperary, Doneg

Cork solicitor Emma Meagher Neville has been elected as president of the Southern Law Association (SLA) for 2023. Ms Neville succeeds Gerard O'Flynn in the top role and will be supported by John Fuller as vice-president following elections at the association's recent AGM, which was attended by the L

Will Carmody has been named as the new managing partner of Mason Hayes & Curran, taking the reins from Declan Black on 1 January 2023. Mr Carmody joined the firm in 2002 and has been head of its financial services department since 2018 and a member of its senior management group since 2020. He a

A police chief who flashed her badge after being stopped for riding a golf cart on the street has been forced to resign. Mary O'Connor, head of the police force in Tampa, Florida's third-largest city, was the passenger in a golf cart that was pulled over last month for driving on a road without a li

Facebook owner Meta is set to be told it cannot force users of its services to agree to personalised ads in what privacy campaigners have said will be a "huge blow to Meta's profits in the EU". The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) yesterday said it had adopted three binding decisions addressing

Legislation creating protest-free buffer zones around abortion clinics in Northern Ireland is compatible with European human rights laws, the UK Supreme Court has unanimously ruled. The Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill was referred to the court in May by the Attorney General for Northern I

Belfast-based Carson McDowell has appointed three new partners and promoted 14 lawyers to the position of senior associate. The appointment of Sarah Cochrane as a partner in the employment team, Cathal O'Neill as a partner in the defence insurance division and Francesca Lowry as a healthcare partner

Law firm Browne Jacobson has appointed Mike Rebeiro, a digital disruption expert, as a strategic advisor to its IP and technology team in the UK and Ireland. Mr Rebeiro is a former global head of technology and innovation at Norton Rose Fulbright and brings 28 years' experience advising British and

Belfast-based MKB Law has celebrated after its director David McAlinden won the "Innovation in Practise" award at the 2022 Insolvency Practitioners Association Awards. Mr McAlinden and colleagues from the firm's insolvency team collected the award at a reception in the National Theatre in London.

A&L Goodbody LLP has raised over €11,000 for homelessness charity Depaul at its annual choir Christmas concert.

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Ireland’s electricity grid operator EirGrid and its French counterpart Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) have signed key technical and financial agreements for the C