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About three hours before the First Dáil Éireann sat in Mansion House at 3.30pm on the 21 January 1919, the first shots of the Irish War of Independence were fired. Irish Volunteers from the Third Tipperary Brigade had received intelligence before Christmas in 1918 that a large qu

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A new app will let people know when they are in the vicinity of debtors. The app, called a "map of deadbeat debtors," flashes when the user is within 500 metres of an indebted person, giving them their precise location.

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The first draft of legislation detailing Ireland's contingency measures in the event of a no-deal Brexit will be revealed today, The Times reports. Measures covering areas including extradition, train services, hospital access, foster care and others will be addressed in a single piece of legislatio

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Independent Alliance members in the Dáil have been called on to support legislation banning the import of goods from the Israeli occupied territories. The Government's junior coalition partners were under pressure to support the law, which would make it an offence for a person to sell or

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The Supreme Court will hear the case of an Iranian man who has lived in Ireland for almost 30 years but who has been denied citizenship on the basis of “secret evidence”, The Irish Times reports. The man, granted refugee status in 1991, has applied a number of times to become a naturalis

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BLM has become the first law firm to officially sign up to the Inclusive Behaviours in Insurance Pledge, an initiative set up by Lloyd’s of London and Zurich to demonstrate the insurance industry’s commitment to creating a “culture where inclusive behaviours become the norm and whe

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Parents are hiring muscular men at a cost of between $450 and $1,790 a day – to protect their kids from bullies. The "uncles" come in different packages, the basic one provides a man in his 30s or 40s who will reportedly walk with the pupil to and from school while repelling bullies.

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The Irish Government is failing to satisfy its "human rights obligations" by protecting its citizens from the effects of climate change, the High Court in Dublin was told. At the opening of a case against the State, the "devastating consequences" of climate change were explained to the court, The Ir

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ByrneWallace has announced the continued expansion of the firm’s reputation management and crisis management teams with the appointment of new partner and corporate litigator Mark O’Shaughnessy.    Mr O’Shaughnessy specialises in advising Irish and international companies

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