Useful addresses:
The Law School, Law Society of Ireland, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7 - phone (01) 671 0200. The Law Society is responsible for training solicitors.
Director of Education, the Honourable Society of King's Inns, Henrietta Street, Dublin 1 - phone (01) 874 4840. The King's Inns is responsible for training barristers.
Both King's Inns and the Law Society produce leaflets on entry requirements to their professional courses.
1997/98 cut-off points for law degrees:
UCC: law 460*; law and French 490*; law and German 455*.
UCD: law 490; business/ legal 435.
UCG: corporate law 455*.
UL: law and accounting 480; law and European studies 490.
TCD: law 515; law and French 570*; law and German 550*.
Law degrees approved by King's Inns for admission to the barrister-at-law course:
TCD: LLB, LLB(French), LLB(German). UCD: BCL. UCC: BCL, BCL(French), BCL(German). UL: BA(European studies, law option) and BA (law and accounting). QUB: LLB provided applicant also passes Irish constitutional law in Society's diploma course.
For all of the above degrees, the following six compulsory subjects must have been included in the degree (or the deficit must be made up by passing the appropriate subject in the diploma course): land law (including the law of succession), equity, law of torts, law of contracts, criminal law and constitution law.
