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Solicitor and banker Basil Geoghegan has been appointed chairman designate of DAA, the operator of Dublin Airport and Cork Airport. Mr Geoghegan (pictured) is a qualified solicitor, having worked with Slaughter and May in London. He holds an LLB from Trinity College Dublin and an LLM from the Europe

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The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has welcomed Government legislative proposals to protect children from discrimination in admission to schools. The Commission recommended in 2015 and 2016 that the Equal Status Act be amended to give practical effect to the existing right of chi

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The UK Supreme Court is hearing the case of an Irish man who was wrongly convicted of attempted rape and is seeking compensation. Victor Nealon, from Dublin, was wrongly convicted in January 1997 and imprisoned until his release in December 2013, when new DNA evidence made his conviction unsafe.

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Irish technology firms raised €332 million in the first quarter of 2018, according to an Irish Venture Capital Association (IVCA) survey published in association with William Fry. The figure represents a 34 per cent increase on the same period last year, when €246.7 million was raised.

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A judge has said it is unfair that fraud cases are coming before the courts four years after they were committed. Judge Patrick Quinn made his comments when sentencing a man who stole €4,300 in 2014 from a small financial services firm that employed him.

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The Department of Justice has confirmed that new legislation will be necessary to break a deadlock on prisoner transfer applications caused by a Supreme Court ruling in 2016. Transfer applications to Ireland from prisoners abroad have been on hold since the Supreme Court upheld the High Court's 2014

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Former solicitor Michael Lynn, who is accused of stealing millions of euro, will stand trial in January 2020, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard. Mr Lynn, 49, is facing 21 charges relating to the alleged theft of almost €30 million from seven financial institutions.

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