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Lawyers and opposition politicians have cast doubt on whether the flaws in the Public Services Card (PSC) scheme can be fixed through legislation. The embattled scheme was dealt a serious blow on Friday after the Data Protection Commission (DPC) said there was no legal basis to require the PSC to ac

Irish emigrants planning to move back to the State with their non-EEA partners will benefit from a new streamlined preclearance process launched today. De facto partners of Irish citizens will now be allowed to apply for their permission to reside in the country before they travel to Ireland.

The Government is considering the case for a French-style "right to disconnect" law to ensure workers do not feel obliged to check work-related emails outside of office hours. Business Minister Heather Humphreys, responding to a parliamentary question, said the Government would "examine the French a

A bill to require nearly a third of all housing developments to be set aside for first-time buyers is set to be introduced by Fianna Fáil next month. The Planning and Development (Amendment) (First Time Buyers) Bill will be introduced by Fianna Fáil housing spokesperson Darragh O'Brien

The number of suspected hate crimes referred to prosecutors in Northern Ireland increased by six per cent in the past year, according to new figures. The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) said it had received 355 files from police in relation to suspected hate crimes between April 2018 and March 2019

An obituary of Northern Ireland barrister Michael Lavery QC, who passed away in April, has been published by The Irish Times. The obituary recognises Mr Lavery as "one of the leading barristers of his generation in Northern Ireland", practising for over six decades until his retirement in 2017.

Road safety officials have called for an investigation into wildly disparate conviction rates for drink driving offences in different Irish counties. New Courts Service figures have revealed that a third of motorists prosecuted for drink driving avoid a conviction, RTÉ reports.

The Irish Association of Law Teachers (IALT) has issued a call for papers for its 2019 annual conference. The conference will take place in Limerick this November on the theme Beyond Borders: Collegiality and Collaboration in Law.

Hundreds of Department of Justice staff are being moved into new positions over the next five weeks as part of a period of "unprecedented change", according to reports. According to the Irish Examiner, 100 civil servants have already been redeployed and 350 more will be moved in the weeks to come.

Tens of thousands of Irish motorists are driving with UK licenses in spite of a warning that they could become invalid after a no-deal Brexit. Up to 40,000 people are still driving with a UK license, according to new figures from the National Driver License Service (NDLS), The Irish Times reports.

Beach authorities have revised public nudity rules to allow the display of "buttocks" after a concerned resident complained about lifeguard uniforms. The resident wrote to the local authorities to complain that the female lifeguard bathing suits were "too skimpy and revealing".

Sitting as a Coroner in the inquest on the death of a 19-year-old man in Derry in 1972, Judge Patrick Kinney has found that the soldier who shot and killed Seamus Bradley was not justified in opening fire and that the investigation into his death was flawed and inadequate. Finding that the use of fo

There is no legal basis for requiring the Public Services Card (PSC) to access many public services which now require it, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) has ruled. The data protection watchdog has warned that the PSC, originally designed for welfare claimants, has become "far-removed from its

The Law Society of Ireland is expected to save around €2.5 million over the next three years after winning a vacant site levy appeal. A one-acre portion of land owned by its subsidiary, Benburb Street Property Company Limited, was placed on the vacant site register by Dublin City Council in 201

The Government has set out the national standards for asylum seeker accommodation and reception centres in Ireland following engagement with the UN and various NGOs. Minister David Stanton, who convened an advisory group including UNHCR Ireland and NGO representatives, said the new standards would i