Sanctions

Frank Flanagan, Aaron Garavaglia and Daragh O'Shea of Mason Hayes & Curran set out practical steps for Irish companies to improve their sanctions compliance programs. The EU has operated its own sanctions regimes since the 1980s,[1] but they have expanded dramatically in the last four years. Whi

The UK government has imposed sanctions against the New IRA and an individual which it suspects of involvement in terrorist activity. From 6 November 2025, Kieran Gallagher and the New IRA are subject to an asset freeze under the Counter-Terrorism (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 — the s

Nina M. Hart makes the case for Ireland taking a stronger approach to the enforcement of EU sanctions. Ireland has long maintained a framework for implementing the European Union’s economic sanctions, or restrictive measures, but not prioritised enforcing them.

Plans to transpose new EU rules on the enforcement of sanctions, introduced in response to Russia's continuing war against Ukraine, have been published by the government. The Department of Justice yesterday published the general scheme of the Criminal Justice (Violation of EU Restrictive Measures) B