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Police investigating an unexpected blackout affecting thousands of people have pointed the finger at a fish dropped by a bird. Sayreville Police Department in New Jersey shared a photo on Facebook of the fish which had apparently landed on a local transformer, dubbing him 'Gilligan'.

A student at University of Galway School of Law recently joined peers from around the world at the 11th Law Schools Global League (LSGL) summer school in London.

William Fry LLP has congratulated the winners of the Irish Junior Lawn Tennis Championships of Ireland, of which the firm was the key sponsor for the 14th year running.

Medical evidence shows "no connection" between the Covid vaccination administered to a 14-year-old boy and his death 24 days later, a coroner has found. Patrick O'Connor, coroner for the district of Mayo, returned an open verdict after a three-day inquest into the death of Joseph McGinty in Septembe

Almost half of the letters sent by England and Wales' Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to complainants are riddled with errors, according to an official report. The CPS watchdog has told the service to “act urgently to get a grip of this situation” as it revealed that letters are full of

An appeal hearing at a Moscow court yesterday which upheld the 13-year sentence imposed on Maksym Butkevych, a Ukrainian human rights defender, is a grave miscarriage of justice, Amnesty International said. The decision to imprison him for 13 years was taken by the so-called supreme court in Russian

Irish-owned managed cloud and cyber security company Ekco has appointed Bahez Talabani as legal counsel for the group. Mr Talabani has experience working across several key commercial areas. His focus includes commercial contract work, advising on a broad range of high value and complex projects acr

Italian cheesemakers have developed a microchip as small as a grain of rice to be used in their battle against cheese counterfeiters. The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium (PRC) said microtransponders installed in over 120,000 parmesan rinds to date are among "new methods" being deployed to help custom

The UK is "required by history and law" to pay trillions of pounds in reparations for transatlantic chattel slavery, a senior judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said. Judge Patrick Robinson, who was president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

Gillian Triggs, the assistant high commissioner for protection in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is to deliver the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission's annual human rights lecture. Ms Triggs, a British-Australian human rights lawyer who previously served as presid

Four new youth diversion projects (YDPs) in Monaghan, Wicklow, Cork and Mayo are to receive funding of at least €1.5 million this year, the government has announced. YDPs work with young people at risk of crime and anti-social behaviour to divert them away from criminal behaviour and towards be

Mason Hayes & Curran LLP has been shortlisted in the category of 'best long-term partnership' in the Business to Arts Awards 2023. The awards celebrate arts sponsorship, commissioning, philanthropy, staff engagement programmes, corporate social responsibility, access programmes and creative comm

Solicitor Edwina Hilton has joined the committee of the Young Irish Georgians, part of the Irish Georgian Society which works to protect, preserve and promote the art and architecture of Ireland. Ms Hilton read Law with French at Trinity College Dublin and recently qualified as a solicitor. She is a

China is "dismantling" the principle of 'one country, two systems' and eroding Hong Kong's autonomy, democratic principles and fundamental freedoms, the EU has said in a new report. The European Commission and the high representative have adopted the 25th annual report to the European Parliament and

Nearly 500 employment equality complaints were received by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in the first half of 2023, with disability, gender and race making up the bulk of complaints. Figures published by the WRC show that it received 466 employment equality complaints and 222 equal status