GAA stars Tomás Ó Sé, Briege Corkery and Anthony Daly were welcomed to the Cork offices of law firm RDJ yesterday for a panel discussion. The GAA legends took part in a lively debate on the championship so far and shared their predictions for the 2025 football and hurling champi
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Appointments
See all articlesPhilip Lee has launched a new financial services and investment funds offering through a strategic partnership with Aquest Advisory. The new practice will offer expert legal advice on a wide range of matters relevant to the financial services industry, including asset management, investment funds, f
Legal and tax advisory firm Orbitus has announced four appointments as part of the "first wave" of a major expansion. The firm has welcomed Eoin Casey as head of litigation and Carmel O’Shea Maloney as head of legal for Beam, the firm's online conveyancing product.
Professor Jennifer Schweppe has been appointed as editor-in-chief of the Irish Judicial Studies Journal, with Dr Una Woods as deputy editor. The Irish Judicial Studies Journal is part of the central fabric of Irish legal scholarship, publishing two standard volumes and one special edition per year.
Mason Hayes & Curran has promoted 18 lawyers to senior associate.
A&L Goodbody has appointed Kevin Murphy as partner and head of its real estate department in Belfast. Mr Murphy brings over 18 years' experience advising on all aspects of commercial property, with particular expertise in land acquisition and disposals particularly in renewable energy developmen
A new chairperson and two new ordinary members have been appointed to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (FSPO) council. Ann Duffy, who has served as an ordinary member since January 2021, has been appointed as chairperson of the council.
Northern Ireland
See all articlesNorthern Ireland's Pro Bono Choir raised £4,000 for its charity partners at its annual summer concert this week.
Sir Gary Hickinbottom has been appointed as chair of the UK public inquiry into the 1989 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane by loyalist paramilitaries. Today's announcement from Northern Ireland secretary Hilary Benn is a major step forward for the inquiry announced last September.
Children in Northern Ireland who are being exploited by paramilitaries and organised crime groups are not being formally identified as victims of modern slavery and human trafficking, according to new research.
Northern Ireland ministers have condemned racially-motivated violence in Ballymena after two teenagers were charged with a serious sexual assault. In a joint statement, all of the Northern Ireland Executive ministers today made an "urgent appeal for calm across society".
The UK Supreme Court will tomorrow hear an appeal in a Northern Ireland case centred on state secrecy in legacy cases. The Northern Ireland secretary is appealing against a coroner's decision to disclose a "gist" of information which the government said should remain private for national security re
Universities
See all articlesUniversity of Galway School of Law associate professor Dr Brian Tobin has been named Legal Educator of the Year award at the LEAP Irish Law Awards 2025.
Matheson and University College Dublin have announced a new collaboration to support UCD Sutherland School of Law in the teaching and research of corporate governance and related law. The new corporate partnership will see the appointment of a new Matheson assistant professor in corporate governance
Children in Northern Ireland who are being exploited by paramilitaries and organised crime groups are not being formally identified as victims of modern slavery and human trafficking, according to new research.
Professor Jennifer Schweppe has been appointed as editor-in-chief of the Irish Judicial Studies Journal, with Dr Una Woods as deputy editor. The Irish Judicial Studies Journal is part of the central fabric of Irish legal scholarship, publishing two standard volumes and one special edition per year.
UCD Sutherland School of Law has launched a new Master's scholarship in law memorialising the late Declan McCourt. The scholarship has been established with a €1 million fund at UCD Foundation in honour of the UCD alumnus, well-known businessman and chairman of the Law School’s Devel
Interviews
See all articlesPaddy Kelly’s energetic leadership of the Children’s Law Centre (CLC) in Northern Ireland has seen it assume a pivotal role in advancing the rights and best interests of children and young people. When Ms Kelly, its founder and CEO, steps down at the end of this month, the most important
Ailish Finnerty has had only had some six weeks to become accustomed to her role as the new chair at Arthur Cox. She has, though, an air of calm assurance — the consequence of her history with the firm, one that stretches back to her becoming a trainee there after taking a BCL and LLM at UCC a

Wherever there is an Irish diaspora — and where is there not? — there will be St Patrick’s Day celebrations. This was the case earlier this month at the Hyatt Regency hotel in London when the London Irish Lawyers Association (LILA) gathered for its third annual St Patrick’s D

Even by the standards of the bewilderingly swift advances in the social media arena, TikTok is a phenomenon. Launched in 2016, the app began its dizzying ascent to become a giant with more than 1.04 billion monthly active users, a scale of growth that took Instagram and Facebook almost a decade to a

The nature of the law means that major modifications to the status quo come rarely and after long consideration. But while the wheel turns slowly, it’s hard to stop once in motion. So, when October last year saw the introduction of new legal partnerships — which enable barristers a
