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International legal business DWF, with offices in Belfast and Dublin, has confirmed plans to go ahead with an initial public offering in March 2019. The firm first announced plans to list on the London Stock Exchange last month, and submitted necessary documents for approval to the UK's Financial Co

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Immigration lawyer Catherine Cosgrave has been appointed to a key national body bringing together stakeholders in children and young people's policy and provision. Ms Cosgrave, managing solicitor at the Immigrant Council of Ireland, was appointed alongside five others to the national advisory counci

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Belfast solicitor Norman Nesbitt, formerly of Nesbitt Solicitors, has passed away. Mr Nesbitt has practised as a solicitor for over six decades after opening his firm, first known as J Norman Nesbitt, in east Belfast in 1954.

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Naomi Gaston, senior associate at Mills Selig, writes on the importance of security at major cryptocurrency exchanges. It has been reported that users of Canada’s largest Cryptocurrency Exchange, QuadrigaCX are unable to access most of their funds amounting to around C$180m (£105m) as th

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Irish people using assisted dying facilities abroad are afraid to give their home addresses in case their friends or family are prosecuted, activists have said. Tom Curran, who backs the legalisation of assisted suicide, told The Times that he knew of "several people who have travelled from Ireland

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A former senior executive at oilfield giant Petrofac has pleaded guilty to bribery in relation to corrupt offers to influence the award of contracts to the company worth in excess of $730 million in Iraq and in excess of $3.5 billion in Saudi Arabia. David Lufkin, 51, previously global head of

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Éamon de Valera was born in New York on 14 October 1882 to Catherine Coll and Juan Vivion de Valera. Juan Vivion died when Éamon was two-years-old, and so Éamon was taken home to live in his mother’s native Limerick with his uncle (TP Coogan, De Valera: Long Fellow, Long S

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Police arrested three men in connection with a burglary after noticing their shoes were covered in fur similar to that on the burgled party's shedding cat. The resident arrived home to find signs of a break-in and three people running away.

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Permanent TSB (PTSB) has lost an appeal against a Personal Insolvency Arrangement (PIA) which was confirmed in the Circuit Court in 2017. PTSB had voted against the terms of the PIA, in which the Personal Insolvency Practitioner proposed that the mortgage debt be written down, and the remaining bala

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