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Mason Hayes & Curran has welcomed its first group of summer interns for 2024. The firm’s three-week programme offers an immersive introduction to life at a corporate law firm.

A new book on domestic violence law and practice has been named Ireland's law book of the year.

The Construction Bar Association's 10th major open conference event took place last week, discussing key issues including building defects, international arbitration and construction litigation.

Dozens of past presidents of Queen's University Belfast Law Society reunited at a special event last week.

Ulster University Law School yesterday hosted a "discussion and debate" with Sir Declan Morgan on the UK government's controversial legacy law.

Ireland's chief justice hosted a meeting of some of the EU's most senior judges at Dublin's Farmleigh House yesterday.

Over 1,600 walkers and runners took part in this year's Calcutta Run to raise funds for The Hope Foundation and Dublin Simon Community. Since 1999, the legal profession's annual fundraiser has raised more than €5.3 million in support of homelessness services in Ireland and Kolkata (formerly Cal

Palestinian human rights defender Shawan Jabarin has received the University of Galway’s 2024 Alumni Award for Law, Public Policy and Society.

Corina Farrell has been named as winner of the light-hearted McCarthy Impromptu Debate 2024, which took at the King's Inns last week. Ms Farrell competed with Michael White, Catey Clarkson and David Irwin, who all spoke on the motion: "This house believes that public houses should be permitted to re

Judge Suzanne Kingston of the General Court of the European Union delivered this year's John M. Kelly Memorial Lecture at UCD Sutherland School of Law.

Matheson lawyers were among participants in the Savills Ireland Cork Charity Challenge in aid of The Crann Centre which took place at Penrose Dock last week.

The Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association (DSBA) hosted its annual dinner in The Westbury on Friday, with over 110 solicitors enjoying the night of "dinner, drink and song".

Cork barristers have raised over €7,000 for charity in memory of Jane Anne Rothwell BL and all their colleagues lost to cancer. The Cork Bar Daffodil Day fundraiser in the Washington Street courthouse on 19 March 2024 raised a total of €7,278 for the Irish Cancer Society.

The London Irish Lawyers' Association (LILA) celebrated St Patrick's Day with dinner, drinks and a guest appearance from defamation lawyer Paul Tweed.

Activist and sports journalist Joanne O'Riordan was welcomed to the King's Inns last week as keynote speaker for the Bar of Ireland's ninth annual International Women's Day dinner. Ms O'Riordan studied criminology in University College Cork (UCC) and is only one of seven people in the world living w