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Many parents have long had ambitions for their children to pursue careers in medicine or law, professions that are perceived as being synonymous with prestige, intellectual challenge and public service. John Magee, a partner at DLA Piper in Dublin, was seriously considering a career in medicine unti

Vladimir Putin’s penchant for assassinating his political enemies is nothing new for Russian rulers. His former employers, the KGB and, before that, the NKVD, were dab hands at it. Stalin’s order to murder Leon Trotsky in exile in Mexico has plenty of parallels today giving this book con

As Ireland drifts further from its legally binding climate goals, mounting emissions shortfalls are increasing the risk of court challenges, human rights claims and costly legal consequences for the State, writes Sarah Kirk. Ireland is set to miss its legally binding 2030 climate targets by a substa

Dr Róisín Á Costello, practising barrister and assistant professor, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, and Olga Cronin, senior policy officer, Enforce, ICCL, outline their serious concerns about the Garda Siochana (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill 2025 which is set to pas

In this true, but often scarcely-believable, story Neil Root explains as best can be done the personal history of Peter Rachman before the latter arrived in Britain. His mysterious background relies for the most part on Rachman’s own undocumented explanations.

Proposals to ban under-16s from social media are a distraction from the fact that governments should enforce existing laws and force technology companies to redesign platforms rather than place further restrictions on young people, writes Noeline Blackwell. Yet again prominent politicians decree tha

The unsolved murder of Stevan Markovic, the Serbian bodyguard and associate of French film star Alain Delon, became an immense scandal in the Paris of 1968 engulfing the highest politicans in the land and highlighted Delon’s connections with gangsters. Rumours also abounded about orgies organ

A new Taliban family law regulation effectively legitimises child marriage and entrenches gender discrimination by restricting girls’ ability to challenge unions arranged on their behalf, writes Mahbooba Faiz. The recent promulgation of the “Principles Regulation on the Separation of Spo

In Argutinski v RTB [2026] IEHC 225 the High Court considered a number of technical issues in relation to service of a Notice of Termination of tenancy under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (as amended). This article examines the statutory provisions in the 2004 Act and argues that where a notice

Irish Legal News presents the latest in a series of articles facilitating dialogue between criminal justice policymakers, practitioners and researchers. Lynn Clarke-Hearty explores recent research on the use of social science evidence in sentencing in Australia and New Zealand. Responding, Gemma McL

Natalie Livingstone’s vivid retelling of the Nuremberg trials shifts the focus from the Nazi defendants to the remarkable women who witnessed, interpreted, chronicled and shaped the proceedings, revealing how their experiences illuminated the moral, political and human legacy of the twentieth

For solicitors who started their career just before the financial crisis of 2008 struck, the timing was both daunting and defining. Newly qualified lawyers were entering a profession gripped by uncertainty in an Ireland faced by economic turbulence. However, there emerged from that singular event a

The ‘CIA book program’ during the Cold War aimed to undermine Soviet censorship and inspire ideas of revolt by offering different visions of thought and culture. This was at a time when the Iron Curtain, forming a long and heavily guarded border, divided Europe. From New York headquarter

For anyone involved in environmental and planning law, getting a major project to consent can sometimes feel like a journey through Dante’s Inferno, one circle after another, writes Maria O'Loan. It is exactly that imagery that Humphreys J reached for in a recent Irish High Court decision: if

As a young journalist visiting Brezhnev’s sclerotic Soviet Union, I felt privileged to be shown around the huge state library in Leningrad, the second largest in the world, by one of the aged librarians who had actually worked there during the horrendous 872-day siege of the city, when the Naz