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Solicitor and public affairs manager Angela Ruttledge has been appointed to the board of tourism body Fáilte Ireland. Ms Ruttledge is public affairs and stakeholder manager at FoodCloud, an Irish charity and social enterprise which creates solutions for the redistribution of surplus food, tac

Co Mayo firm P. O'Connor & Son has appointed Katie Cadden as a senior associate in its commercial department. The announcement comes in the wake of the Swinford-based firm recently naming Samantha Geraghty as its new managing partner.

Juries in England and Wales are more likely to convict than acquit a defendant of rape, and this has been the case for at least 15 years, according to a large-scale analysis of all jury verdicts by University College London’s Professor Cheryl Thomas. The analysis found that the jury conviction

Our regular round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Limerick Twenty Thirty (LTT) has formed a joint venture partnership with Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF), part of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) to finance the development

Belfast-based Tughans LLP has been named Northern Ireland's most active corporate law firm for an eighth year in a row. Tughans advised on 79 of the 267 transactions which took place last year, according to the Experian MarketIQ M&A review.

Belfast-based McCartan Turkington Breen (MTB) has announced a new charity partnership with Northern Ireland Hospice.

New legislation overhauling the State's planning system could be "mired in legal challenge for the next 10 years", a government TD has said. Neasa Hourigan, the Green Party TD for Dublin Central, criticised the government for having failed to conduct an independent review of the Planning and Develop

Paul C McCarthy SC has been admitted to the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) as a Fellow. The prestigious organisation is a worldwide association of practising lawyers recognised by their peers as the most experienced and skilled family law specialists in their respective countries.

A rare book on chess which was stolen from a school library nearly 70 years ago has been anonymously returned with £50 and an apology. The fourth edition copy of Rev E E Cunnington's The Modern Chess Primer was recently returned to Elgin Academy in the north of Scotland, The Herald reports.

A pair of trainee solicitors from the Solicitors' Apprentice Debating Society of Ireland (SADSI) have triumphed in the 63rd Irish Times Debate. Ailbhe Noonan of Arthur Cox and Gavin Dowd of A&L Goodbody emerged on Friday as winners of the longest-running debate competition of its type in Ireland

Two new commissioners have been appointed to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Lisa Caldwell and Stephen Mathews are joining the statutory body, while Neil Anderson, Duane Farrell, Jarlath Kearney and Carmel McKinney have been reappointed for a further three years.

The UK government is to step in to introduce a "soft opt-out" system of organ and tissue donation in Northern Ireland. The enactment of the Organ and Tissue Donation (Deemed Consent) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 has been delayed in the absence of a functioning Northern Ireland Assembly to pass second

A new working group established by government is to draw up a national strategy on countering disinformation by the end of the year, according to reports. Helmed by Martina Chapman, national co-ordinator of Media Literacy Ireland, the working group will also work to improve compliance in Ireland wit

Card payments are now possible in Circuit and District Court offices across the State, the Courts Service has announced. Debit and credit card payments are now accepted for civil applications, small claims applications, fines and poor box payments.

Judges in Northern Ireland number alongside more than 11,000 in England and Wales who will lose pension benefits worth £3.5 billion at the end of this year if the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill passes. The bill, due to be scrutinised in the Lords next week, will revoke almost all