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Facebook owner Meta has been fined €251 million by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) following a personal data breach. Around 29 million Facebook accounts globally, including around three million based in the EU/EEA, were impacted by a data breach reported by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (

Callan Tansey partner Caroline McLaughlin has been elected president of the Sligo Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA). Ms McLaughlin is joined on the new committee by Joanne Irwin of Damien Tansey Solicitors LLP as secretary, Noel Kelly of Noel Kelly Solicitors as treasurer, and Carol Ballantyne of Mu

Northern Ireland's criminal courts will grind to a halt in January after criminal barristers announced a significant escalation of their industrial action over legal aid fees. Members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) are to withdraw from appearing in all legally aided Crown Court cases listed b

The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against TikTok in response to concerns about foreign interference in the Romanian presidential election. TikTok is suspected of breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA) in relation to its obligation to properly assess and mitigate systemic risks

Global law firm DLA Piper has said it expects an increase in global infrastructure investment over the next 24 months, despite a decline in the value of global infrastructure M&A deals. A survey carried out by Infralogic on behalf of the firm found that seven in 10 senior executives in the

The UK has been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for its alleged failure to comply with EU law on free movement of EU citizens and their family members at the end of 2020. The European Commission believes there were several shortcomings in the UK's implementation of the

The PSNI and the Metropolitan Police unlawfully spied on investigative journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled today.

Reader Johnnie McCoy BL has shared with Irish Legal News a picture of the Christmas tree erected in The Bar of Ireland's legal research centre.

The Law Society of Ireland has presented a cheque worth €325,000 to its Calcutta Run charity partners, The Hope Foundation and Dublin Simon Community. Both charity partners received €160,000, with a further €5,000 being donated to the Southern Bar Law Association for its charity partn

Martina Moran has been elected as president of the Galway Solicitors Bar Association (GSBA) for 2025. A solicitor with Co Galway firm Gearoid Geraghty & Co, she succeeds RDJ senior associate Stephanie Coughlan, who remains on the committee as secretary.

Facebook is "exposed to terrorist content" and must take action to address this, Coimisiún na Meán has determined. The regulator's decision under the EU Terrorist Content Online Regulation follows a similar finding in respect of TikTok, X and Instagram in November 2024.

Hundreds of offences committed by Star Trek fans have been erroneously blamed on one woman for years, her lawyer has said. New York woman Beda Koorey has experienced legal trouble for more than four years because of a state-issued license plate which reads NCC 1701.

Asylum seekers were unlawfully detained on Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands controversially retained by the UK after Mauritius became independent in the 1960s, a judge has ruled. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Supreme Court yesterday found that dozens of Sri Lankan Tamils w

As many as 1,360 children have never been reunited with their parents six years after they were forcibly separated at the US border, according to a new report. The 135-page report from Human Rights Watch, the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP), and the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at

The incoming government has been urged to have the "political courage" to tackle prison overcrowding after new figures showed an increase in people committed on short sentences. The Irish Prison Service (IPS) published its 2023 annual report on Friday, showing the daily average number of prisoners i