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A bust of the lawyer and diplomat John Hearne, a key architect of the Constitution, has been unveiled in his native city of Waterford. The memorial bust by sculptor Liz O'Kane was unveiled at a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the key document, addressed by Justice Minister Charlie Fla

Richard Grogan Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates writes on recent EU rulings on weekly rest periods.

Nicola Walsh Lavelle Solicitors has appointed Nicola Walsh as head of the firm's property team.

Asylum seekers should be given access to the Irish labour market if no decision on their asylum application has been made within six months, the Irish Refugee Council (IRC) has said. The NGO today published a policy paper which it said would help to inform the Government's response to a landmark Sup

A High Court judge has expressed concerns about "foreign owned funds" citing fire safety issues when seeking to put people out of their homes immediately. The remarks were made by Mr Justice Paul Gilligan at Friday's sitting of the High Court.

Pictured (l-r): Aidan Lawlor, Partner, McCann FitzGerald; Bernard Byrne, CEO of AIB; Barry Devereux, Managing Partner, McCann FitzGerald; and Richard Pym, Chairman of AIB. A team of lawyers at McCann FitzGerald advised AIB on its €3 billion IPO, the largest IPO in Europe so far this year.

Students at Queen's University Belfast competed for a £10,000 prize at a "Dragons' Den" competition sponsored by Belfast-based Tughans Solicitors and accountancy firm Cavanagh Kelly.

Cops have appealed to the public to help track down a bald man who stole steven boxes of a topical hair regrowth product. In a statement, police said it was "not the most hair-raising crime", but they suspected he will "continue committing this type of crime, as 12-14 months of consistent use is nee

The Attorney General, with the support of the Department of Justice, successfully appealed an order of the High Court which declared the abortion legislation in NI to be incompatible with the UK’s obligations under the Human Rights Act 1998 in the circumstances where the foetus was diagnosed with

Chief Commissioner Les Allamby The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has confirmed it will appeal yesterday's Court of Appeal ruling that Northern Ireland's abortion laws are not incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998.

Enterprise Minister Frances Fitzgerald The general scheme of a bill to encourage more claims to be settled through the Personal Injuries Assessment Board has been published.

Solicitors in the north-west of Ireland are today taking part in the second part of a two-day conference on national and legal issues affecting local communities. Around 100 solicitors are attending the annual conference in Donegal, which was organised by Law Society Skillnet, the Donegal Bar Associ

The number of mortgage approvals in Ireland rose by 35 per cent over the year to May 2017, according to new figures from the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI). The BPFI Mortgage Approvals Report shows 4,124 mortgages were approved in May 2017.

Derek Walsh Derek Walsh, litigation solicitor at Keating Connolly Sellors, writes on bullying and the law after giving a recent in-house seminar on bullying in schools and the workplace.

At least 89 homicides recorded between 2003-17 were not included in statistical publications by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Irish Examiner reports. A meeting of the Policing Authority heard that An Garda Síochána had not reported the homicides to the CSO because they were miscategoris