Editorial

Today is my final day as editor of Irish Legal News, a publication I have led for over a decade and virtually all of my professional life. Our most loyal readers, who have been around since our launch in October 2015, will appreciate how far it has come in that time. I've enjoyed delving through the

The new legal year has started with a bang. Just three short months after Helen McEntee said she didn't like to see barristers "protesting on the steps of the Criminal Courts of Justice", there are barristers on the steps of courthouses across the length and breadth of the State as they take part in

It was never supposed to come to this. The Bar Council's historic decision to call for strike action over fee restoration is undoubtedly a dramatic development — and one that Irish Legal News believes is entirely justified. Successive governments have had long enough to rectify an abysmal situ

Even by the standards of today’s enfeebled and anaemic media, the lack of coverage of the death of Clive Ponting who passed away last week at his home in Scotland is remarkable. It is also lamentable. Ponting was a young, high-flying civil servant who could not live with the lie Margaret Thatc

As we enter the darkest days we have faced since World War Two, the thoughts of the team at Irish Legal News are with our readers and their families – but also with the many law firms which have only recently recovered from the crash of 2008 and its consequences. They now face an even greater

The appalling murders of Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones in a terrorist attack have shocked millions. Two young graduates had their lives snuffed out while volunteering to help the less fortunate rehabilitate themselves. In the agony of their grief, Jack Merritt’s family, sensing the media and p