Analysis

Writing for Irish Legal News today, former taoiseach and chairperson of Ireland for Law, Enda Kenny, highlights how Ireland’s legal system offers a stable alternative amid global decline in the rule of law. The steady decline in the rule of law globally is a sobering reminder of how quickly ou

An event hosted by the Irish Women Lawyers Association and the Law Society explored how Sally Hayden's reporting from conflict zones has informed refugee litigation, influenced policy debates and become an important resource for asylum practitioners assessing protection claims, write Lorraine Lally

It is a sign of the passage of time that the subtitle to this biography should explicitly identify Bernard Montgomery as a ‘World War II general’. ‘Monty’ and a few, but not many, other generals were well known as celebrities to the wartime public. Montgomery was an outsider,

Until last year, I never took an interest in my Ogilvy ancestors, and I wish I had left it that way. Farmers at the head of Glenisla for hundreds of years, they were tenants and kinsmen of the Earl of Airlie. In contrast to my English relations (war heroes and concentration camp survivors), they see

In March 2023, Alex Murdaugh (pronounced ‘Murdock’ by Americans), an attorney, was found guilty of the murders of his wife Maggie and their younger son Paul at their home in South Carolina. The circumstances of the deaths were violent; both having been shot. The news outlets produced a n

When Majella Walsh was announced as the recipient of the Munster Regional Sole Practitioner of the Year award at the LEAP Irish Law Awards last month, she says her first reaction was one of some surprise. Those who know her professionally would not have been startled at the news. Noted by clients fo

During his long summer holidays in 1934, staying with a school friend’s family in Ireland, historian and author Richard Cobb remarked on what, to him, seemed like a peculiar practice: tram passengers discreetly crossing themselves every time the tram passed a church or roadside shrine, which a

Ireland’s statutory right to request remote working has reshaped workplace discussions since the pandemic, but with few successful legal challenges and no right to work from home, questions remain over whether the current framework delivers meaningful protections for employees, writes Anthony

Many parents have long had ambitions for their children to pursue careers in medicine or law, professions that are perceived as being synonymous with prestige, intellectual challenge and public service. John Magee, a partner at DLA Piper in Dublin, was seriously considering a career in medicine unti

Vladimir Putin’s penchant for assassinating his political enemies is nothing new for Russian rulers. His former employers, the KGB and, before that, the NKVD, were dab hands at it. Stalin’s order to murder Leon Trotsky in exile in Mexico has plenty of parallels today giving this book con

As Ireland drifts further from its legally binding climate goals, mounting emissions shortfalls are increasing the risk of court challenges, human rights claims and costly legal consequences for the State, writes Sarah Kirk. Ireland is set to miss its legally binding 2030 climate targets by a substa

Dr Róisín Á Costello, practising barrister and assistant professor, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, and Olga Cronin, senior policy officer, Enforce, ICCL, outline their serious concerns about the Garda Siochana (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill 2025 which is set to pas

In this true, but often scarcely-believable, story Neil Root explains as best can be done the personal history of Peter Rachman before the latter arrived in Britain. His mysterious background relies for the most part on Rachman’s own undocumented explanations.

Proposals to ban under-16s from social media are a distraction from the fact that governments should enforce existing laws and force technology companies to redesign platforms rather than place further restrictions on young people, writes Noeline Blackwell. Yet again prominent politicians decree tha

The unsolved murder of Stevan Markovic, the Serbian bodyguard and associate of French film star Alain Delon, became an immense scandal in the Paris of 1968 engulfing the highest politicans in the land and highlighted Delon’s connections with gangsters. Rumours also abounded about orgies organ