Planning tribunal judge promoted in new round of judicial appointmentsAlan Mahon among seven judges named to fill key vacanciesTue Oct 21 2014 - 18:55
Government to nominate new High Court judges todayMore than 70 lawyers, half of them barristers, applied for postsTue Oct 21 2014 - 01:00
‘Acute risk’ of public commentary jeopardising banking trials, DPP warnsClaire Loftus says Court of Appeal could bring more consistency to sentencingMon Oct 20 2014 - 01:01
DPP defends her office’s handling of rape casesClaire Loftus warns of ’acute’ risk of public commentary prejudicing banking casesSat Oct 18 2014 - 11:22
Judicial board meets after barrister withdraws High Court applicationSeven vacancies will arise in High Court when Court of Appeal formally establishedSat Oct 18 2014 - 01:01
Four new judges selected to fill vacancies on High CourtEx-barrister who represented women in landmark abortion case among nomineesWed Oct 15 2014 - 10:01
Four judges to be promoted to High CourtJudges Carroll Moran, Mary Faherty, Raymond Fullam and Carmel Stewart to fill four out of seven vacanciesTue Oct 14 2014 - 17:56
Links creche faces 24 charges in wake of RTÉ programmeMajority of charges concern ‘disrespectful, degrading or exploitative’ practicesMon Oct 13 2014 - 12:11
The links between Hollywood, Heat and the Irish High CourtTimberlake and Biel lodge defamation case in Ireland over damage to reputationFri Oct 10 2014 - 18:18
Victims ‘left to flounder’ in medical negligence casesCases can cost €100,000 before going to trial, conference hearsFri Oct 10 2014 - 07:48
Irish judges are among best paid in Europe, report findsCouncil of Europe report finds Ireland has fewer women judges than most European statesThu Oct 09 2014 - 15:49
High Court ‘hard-pressed’ amid shortage of judgesMr Justice Nicholas Kearns highlights ‘unsatisfactory’ situationThu Oct 09 2014 - 01:00
Human rights watchdog ‘concerned’ about direct provisionIncoming head Emily Logan stresses independence of new organisationWed Oct 08 2014 - 16:35
Internet turned into ‘giant surveillance platform’ by NSABruce Schneier tells Dublin audience secure web is in everyone’s interestMon Oct 06 2014 - 21:49
‘Inside Probation’ goes behind the scenes at the Probation ServiceRTÉ documentary follows the probation service as it supervises thousands of offendersMon Oct 06 2014 - 01:00
Google ‘right to be forgotten’ rejections to be investigatedData Commissioner to investigate 18 Irish requests rejected by web giantWed Oct 01 2014 - 18:46
Google removes links to ‘Irish Times’ reportEuropean court decision results in 135,000 requests to be ‘forgotten’Mon Sept 29 2014 - 16:27
Government to choose 10 new judgesSeven vacancies to fill on High Court as senior judges move to new appeals courtSat Sept 27 2014 - 01:00
Legal and political considerations may lie behind removal of surrogacy plansSupreme Court to give landmark decision next monthFri Sept 26 2014 - 01:05
Government drops surrogacy plans from overhaul of family lawDraft law extends adoption rights to cohabiting couplesFri Sept 26 2014 - 01:02
Government drops surrogacy plans from family law overhaulDraft law extends adoption rights to cohabiting couplesThu Sept 25 2014 - 17:44
Woman in abortion case tells of suicide attemptDuring pregnancy woman says she was told she could have an abortionTue Aug 19 2014 - 06:21
They said they could not do an abortion. I said, ‘You can leave me now to die. I don’t want to live in this world anymore’The woman refused an abortion says she was raped but did not know she was pregnant until she arrived in IrelandTue Aug 19 2014 - 06:19
Life in Gaza: Seven years old. Your third warThe futile, self-defeating conflict of the past three weeks is part of an endless cycle of violence that has been thoroughly assimilated into daily life in Gaza and IsraelSat Aug 02 2014 - 01:00
Binyamin Netanyahu warns of a drawn-out warEight children killed in a playground in Gaza City as both sides blame the otherTue Jul 29 2014 - 11:15
‘Go down to the fridges and you’ll find about 11 kids – all killed’Gazans had taken advantage of a lull in fighting to venture outside when blasts occurredTue Jul 29 2014 - 01:00
Obama calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ as uneasy calm hangs over GazaLull of several hours broken by rocket and artillery fireMon Jul 28 2014 - 07:49
‘No one achieved anything but destruction’ in Gaza cityGazans hunker down in devastated city despite ceasefireMon Jul 28 2014 - 01:00
Israel rejects US ceasefire proposalUS official says Netanyahu told Kerry Israel would initiate 12-hour pause in hostilitiesSat Jul 26 2014 - 01:00
Israel’s insider criticsAvner Gvaryahu is a former Israeli soldier who has become a campaigner against his country’s policies. In the city of Hebron he demonstrates what he regards as the folly of Israel’s military occupation of the West BankSat Jul 26 2014 - 01:00
Palestinian factions in West Bank declare ‘day of rage’Calls for continuing protests after three killedSat Jul 26 2014 - 01:00
Gaza death toll rises to more than 800More than 160,000 displaced people being housed in shelters run by UNSat Jul 26 2014 - 01:00
‘Israel is starting to spread its fingertips; if we have an intifada we’ll cut their fingers’Thhe support of young Palestinians for uprising is not equalled by that of their eldersFri Jul 25 2014 - 01:00
Strike on UN-run shelter in Gaza kills 15Ban Ki-moon ‘appalled’ at attack, before two more deaths in West Bank last nightFri Jul 25 2014 - 01:00
Abbas aligns himself with Hamas in tactical movePresident Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah proposes reworked ceasefire planThu Jul 24 2014 - 01:00
In the Galilee, Gaza war sets off reaction among Israeli ArabsCurrent violence put spotlight on Israel’s main minority, writes Ruadhan Mac Cormaic in HaifaWed Jul 23 2014 - 01:00
Gaza city and Ashkelon: cities divided by more than a borderIn the closest Israeli city to Gaza, residents support the invasionTue Jul 22 2014 - 01:00
Gaza life and death play out to beat of Israeli firepowerIsraeli ground offensive puts ordinary Gazans in front line of conflictMon Jul 21 2014 - 12:57
Worst day of conflict in Gaza as 62 Palestinians dieUN convenes emergency Security Council meeting to discuss crisisMon Jul 21 2014 - 01:00
A first-hand account of the beginning of a ground invasionUnable to sleep with the din of explosions, journalist Ruadhán Mac Cormaic sat and watched an extraordinary scene unfoldSat Jul 19 2014 - 01:01
‘The Israelis don’t care about anybody’The longer diplomacy stalls, the higher the chances that Israel and Hamas will be drawn into a deadly, drawn-out war, with civilians – and increasingly children – its greatest victimsSat Jul 19 2014 - 01:00
‘We are not a military building, we are not a strategic building. We are a hospital’Paralysed patients are carried to safety after a 10-minute attack warningSat Jul 19 2014 - 01:00
Ceasefire a chance to see damage and buy suppliesThe streets filled as people stocked up. But then explosions started up againFri Jul 18 2014 - 12:51
‘Bombardments. Fear. Leave your house, you can die’Upset and angry, bereaved survivors of destroyed homes shelter in a school, writes Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, in Gaza CityThu Jul 17 2014 - 01:01
Short ceasefire after four children killed in Israeli attackRuadhán Mac Cormaic in Gaza City:Diplomatic efforts show no signs of a breakthroughThu Jul 17 2014 - 01:00
Lifting the lid on the District CourtA new book offers a critical appraisal of Ireland’s busiest courtroomsMon Jul 14 2014 - 01:15
Merger of five workplace dispute bodies moves a step closerSTANDFIRST Government cites need for better services and €2 million savingsWed Jul 09 2014 - 08:04
EU data protection authorities to agree approach to ‘right to be forgotten’ appealsIrish Times and RTÉ not aware of link deletionsTue Jul 08 2014 - 01:01
149 lawyers applied for single District Court vacancyReport shows women better represented among applicants for lower courtsMon Jul 07 2014 - 01:04
Human rights activist Mary Lawlor receives French honourFrancophile ‘symbolises commitment of Irish and French governments to defence of human rights’Fri Jul 04 2014 - 09:25
