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Irish Legal News is now on Bluesky, the social media platform which has gained millions of new users in the past few days. Many communications and PR professionals across the country are no doubt weighing up whether their law firm employers or clients should establish a presence on the platform.

Irish lawyers are abandoning Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, in droves as they now see it as a "toxic" hub of misinformation and hate speech, according to a poll conducted by Irish Legal News. Subscribers to ILN's popular email newsletter were invited last week to have their say on X in the wake of

Barrister Gillian O'Hanlon has joined the Irish Legal News team as our newest case reporter. Her appointment comes as the beginning of the new legal term approaches and follows the appointment of Killian Flood BL as our new features writer.

Irish Legal News case reporter Killian Flood BL is to take up a new role as ILN feature writer from September 2023. Mr Flood, a practising barrister, joined ILN as case reporter in November 2020 and has since written more than 400 summaries of judgments at virtually every court level.

Followers of Irish Legal News' busy LinkedIn account reached 21,000 yesterday as our readership and subscriber figures continue to grow. LinkedIn followers typically increase by around 400 per month while subscribers to our free daily newsletter increase by around 130 a month, taking us close to 11,

Lawyers and law students can now get the latest legal headlines direct to their Instagram feed as Irish Legal News has joined the image-sharing platform.

Irish Legal News has reached two important milestones with subscribers to the free daily newsletter breaking through 10,000 and LinkedIn followers exceeding 20,000 for the first time.

Followers of the popular Irish Legal News Linkedin pages have reached 18,000 with the number of unique visitors to our website, www.irishlegal.com, now averaging 100,000 per month. LinkedIn followers are increasing by just under 500 per month and last month 169 new subscribers to the free Irish Lega

Irish Legal News congratulates our former case reporter Dr Róise Connolly after she passed her PhD viva at Queen's University Belfast School of Law. Dr Connolly's thesis was titled Caught too late and lost too soon: Diagnostic technology, patents and human rights law.

Conor Courtney, Northern Ireland case reporter at Irish Legal News, has been shortlisted in the Newcomer of the Year category at the Justice Media Awards 2022. Mr Courtney joined the ILN team in August 2021 and has since produced more than 50 detailed reports of judgments from the Northern Ireland c

Irish Legal News has had a great start to the year, breaking through two social media milestones with 964 new followers taking our busy LinkedIn channel up to 14,253 while our Twitter followers have today gone through the 8,000 mark. Steady growth in subscribers to the free daily ILN newsletter cont

Welcome to your new-look Irish Legal News. After five-and-a-half years, we decided it was time to upgrade and improve our free daily newsletter and ILN website.

An article which appeared in Irish Legal News on Wednesday 3 February 2021 stated that Ms Una Mc Gurk SC had been "rebuked" by Mr Justice Max Barrett of the High Court for her reasoning in a Decision of Mr X in her capacity as a member of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT). We acce

A full recording of yesterday afternoon's Irish Legal News webinar on data protection in the post-pandemic world is now available online.

Irish Legal News is proud to present an expert discussion on the changing landscape of data protection in Ireland and abroad. The free webinar, on Thursday 6 August, 2pm-4pm, follows our highly-successful webinar on access to justice earlier this month.