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The Bar of Ireland has said it will consult its members on next steps after an eight per cent increase in legal aid fees fell "short of what criminal practitioners had been expecting". The increase, which follows an unprecedented withdrawal of services by barristers over three days this summer, will

Philip Lee lawyer Maeve Delargy has been recognised with an award for her role in establishing a network for women working in the Irish solar industry. Ms Delargy, a senior associate in Philip Lee's planning and environmental team, won the Empowering Diversity in Solar award at the first-ever Irish

Ireland has failed to properly transpose EU rules on combating racism and xenophobia, the European Commission has said. The Commission yesterday sent a letter of formal notice to Ireland for only partially transposing the Council Framework Decision on combating racism and xenophobia (Council Framewo

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A police officer's gun was allegedly sucked onto an MRI machine during a botched raid carried out after police mistook a medical facility for an illegal cannabis farm. Police in Los Angeles raided NoHo Diagnostic Center last October, apparently believing that the medical imaging centre was a front f

Irish soldiers are no longer providing a 24/7 armed guard at Portlaoise Prison for the first time in more than 50 years. The Defence Forces were deployed to the prison at the height of the Troubles in the 1970s in order to prevent IRA prisoners from escaping.

The Irish prison system is "creaking at the seams" and promises of new prison places will not adequately address the crisis, penal experts have warned. The prisons budget has been increased by 18 per cent to €525 million in Budget 2025, which the government said will increase prison capacity an

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been slapped with a £750,000 fine over its unprecedented data breach last year. The force inadvertently published the names, roles and other personal details of all serving police officers and civilian staff on its website just over a year ago.

Mauritius is to assume sovereignty over the Chagos Islands following a historic deal which brings a decades-long dispute with the UK to an end. The UK, which currently administers the islands as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), expelled the local Chagossian population in the 1960s and 1970

Matheson has appointed Anthony Byrne as director of international listing services and Luke Tyrrell as director of information technology. Mr Byrne has extensive experience in the listed bond markets, having worked for 20 years in the stock exchange industry.

Economic inequality is "dangerously exacerbated" by climate change, the Irish Human Rights and Equality has warned as Ireland goes under UN scrutiny. The rights body yesterday published its submission to the UN Human Rights Council, which is reviewing Ireland's implementation of recommendations made

Switzerland and Italy have redrawn their international borders as a result of melting glaciers in the Alps. Part of the border between the two Alpine countries has historically been marked by the watershed of the Theodul glacier.

TikTok has opened a new "transparency and accountability centre" in Dublin which experts can visit to see how it works to protect users online. Dara Calleary, minister of state for trade promotion, digital and company regulation, joined TikTok yesterday to officially open the new centre, which 

Dublin firm Edward Healy Solicitors has rebranded as Healy Pentony Solicitors LLP. The firm said the change of name "reflects the company’s growth in recent years, providing exceptional legal services in private client, property, commercial litigation and banking".

A one-day conference later this month is to examine media and cultural representations of gender-based violence. The Centre for Crime, Justice & Victims Studies in the School of Law at the University of Limerick is hosting Words Matter: Promoting Best Practice in Media and Cultural Representatio