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Four in ten Irish businesses will not be prepared for NIS2 compliance by next week's deadline, a survey by Mason Hayes & Curran suggests. The business law firm surveyed 160 professionals ahead of 17 October, the date by which the government must transpose NIS2 into Irish law.

Israel has breached international humanitarian law by targeting and firing on UNIFIL positions in Lebanon, the Irish government has said. The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon said yesterday that its Naqoura headquarters and nearby positions "have been repeatedly hit" by the Israel Defence Forces (

Global law firm Eversheds Sutherland has appointed David Kirton as a partner in the firm's intellectual property, technology and data protection team in Dublin. Mr Kirton, previously a partner in a large Irish law firm, advises Irish and international businesses on technology licensing and implement

Beauchamps has appointed Fiona Egan and Yvonne O'Byrne as partners. Ms Egan joins the firm from Arthur Cox as a partner in the projects, infrastructure and energy team.

Police say they seized a bag labelled "definitely not a bag full of drugs" — which turned out to be full of drugs.

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Penal experts have raised concerns that youth detention is not being treated as a last resort in spite of a statutory obligation. The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) said the youth detention system is "now regularly at capacity" as it responded to a new report on conditions in Oberstown Children Det

The Bar of Ireland has congratulated its 27 members who are being called to the Inner Bar at the Supreme Court. The call to the Inner Bar, often referred to as “taking silk” in reference to their silk robes, is a recognition of a barrister’s exceptional legal expertise, professiona

Corrigan & Corrigan Solicitors LLP has introduced a new tort prize for undergraduate students of University of Galway School of Law. The new tort prize is worth €500 for the first-year student who achieves the highest mark in the tort module.

The Sligo Solicitors Bar Association (SSBA) welcomed over 100 solicitors to its successful CPD day at the Sligo Park Hotel on Friday. Guest speakers at the event included Katie Da Gama of Coaching for Lawyers, Susan Bourke of Legal RSS, Ger Mason of Finders, Anne Heenan of the Probate Office at

The UK government has published a "once in a generation" set of employment rights reforms which will apply across Great Britain. The Employment Rights Bill contains 28 individual employment reforms, from ending zero hours contracts and fire and rehire practices to establishing day one rights to prot

Northern Ireland councils are to be given new powers to prepare and publish planning application validation checklists. The Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. No.176) will amend The Planning (General Development Procedure) Order (Northern Ireland

Landmark reforms to the planning process have been approved by the Oireachtas and will be signed into law. The Planning and Development Bill 2023 introduces statutory timelines for all consenting processes and will see An Bord Pleanála reorganised into a new body called An Coimisiún Pl

Families who experience a stillbirth can now register their loss in a public record of stillbirths. The new opt-in register has been introduced this week following the enactment of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024.

A man has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment in Iran for having a pet cat. Niloufar Ghazaleh and Mohammad Ali Moghimi, a married couple living in the Middle Eastern country's Isfahan province, drew the ire of authorities after breaking mandatory hijab rules, IranWire reports.