Jim O'Callaghan
Prison service weighed clipping 40 days from sentences to reduce overcrowding
Analysis showed decision would lead to immediate release of 150 people, including convicts of violent and sexual crimes
Minister and Law Society agree on ‘focused’ engagement aimed at resolving legal aid row
Dispute over new legal aid payment model has seriously disrupted the criminal courts
Minister for Justice to meet Law Society over legal aid row amid ongoing court disruption
Meeting is first face-to-face encounter between sides since late July
High Court overturns Palestinian student’s visa denial over ‘significant errors’ in process
Minister wrongly asserted Shaymaa Abudalu (20) had not provided certain financial documentation
Dublin officialdom virtue-signalled about Ukraine. People in rural Ireland did the work
The Government is now bored with it all. Emotional spurts don’t sustain themselves
Women need to be supported from a young age to express their right to bodily autonomy
Ireland has a shameful history of child abuse and abuse of women perpetrated by family members and people in positions of power
Wariness grows in legal aid row after week of bitter recriminations
Solicitors and Minister for Justice face criticism as positions become entrenched ahead of Law Society meeting with Jim O’Callaghan
Minister for Justice’s intervention in hugging consent video is ‘unsettling’, ICCL says
Jim O’Callaghan’s comments interfered with work of non-profit organisation, Irish Council for Civil Liberties says
Disquiet on political front amid legal aid row, triple lock debate and ‘demeaning’ advert
Inside Politics: Jim O’Callaghan objects to ‘inappropriate and demeaning’ video by Dublin Rape Crisis Centre
If you think legal aid is expensive, wait until you hear how costly the alternative is
Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan needs to reach agreement with solicitors to end industrial action
Advert showing grandparents hugging grandchildren is taken down amid criticism
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre removes online video, saying it does not want ‘negativity’ to impinge on its work
Law Society seeks to meet O’Callaghan ‘in person’ to solve legal aid payments impasse
Minister for Justice offers talks to hear Law Society’s viewpoint as four-month withdrawal of services escalates
Will Jim O’Callaghan back down in legal aid dispute with solicitors?
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Government working on ‘very serious case’ of sexually exploited teen, Taoiseach tells Dáil
Martin says fundamental issue is staffing shortages, insisting it is ‘not for the want of funding’
Only way to combat ‘drugs intimidation’ is to inform gardaí, Jim O’Callaghan says
Matt Carthy calls for ‘immediate, determined crackdown’ on gangs ‘terrorising communities’
The criminal courts are operating, but not ‘effectively’, as Jim O’Callaghan claims
Minister has offered to meet solicitors as legal aid dispute sees case backlogs rise
All sides primed for a fight in Dáil over plans to scrap the triple lock
Inside Politics: Uproar in chamber as debate dredges up old wounds, while Jim O’Callaghan’s long war rumbles on
Jim O’Callaghan reiterates claim that solicitors are targeting rape cases
Minister faces backlash for saying rape trials were only cases ‘deliberately’ targeted by striking solicitors
The Irish Times view on the legal aid dispute: solicitors should end it now
Jim O’Callaghan still has time to show he has the stomach to take on bigger reforms
Palestinian student’s visa refusal was unlawful, court told
Outcome of challenge may impact 38 similar cases taken by others denied documentation by Minister for Justice
Minister for Justice accused of ‘grossly unfair commentary’ over rape cases
O’Callaghan criticised for saying ‘only cases deliberately affected by withdrawal of services in Central Criminal Court yesterday were those involving allegations of rape’
Jim O’Callaghan accused of treating solicitors’ pay dispute ‘like it’s a game’
Taoiseach defends Minister for Justice on issue saying ‘essence of the reforms are here to stay because we do owe it to the taxpayer’
‘It is the most basic duty of a solicitor to represent a client in custody’, says judge
Judge Martin Nolan made comments in the context of a number of defendants appearing without a solicitor due to the legal aid dispute
Opposition, lawyers condemn O’Callaghan over rape trials ‘deliberately affected’ remark
Minister’s comments on solicitors withdrawing services in legal aid dispute ‘deliberately provocative’ and an ‘absolute disgrace’
Legal aid dispute escalates as rhetoric ramps up
Inside Politics: Jim O’Callaghan’s latest comments were no slip of the tongue and will doubtlessly further rile the solicitors
No special care place available for girl (14) being sexually exploited by group of men
Judge directs that details of cases be sent to three Government Ministers
Rape trials only cases ‘deliberately’ targeted by striking solicitors, Jim O’Callaghan to tell Oireachtas
Criminal defence solicitor Michael Finucane rejects suggestion rape or any specific cases targeted
Judge ‘coerced’ into adjourning six rape and sexual offences trials as solicitors withdraw
Defence solicitors warned by judges they need court permission to cease representing people in custody
No chaos in the courts, Jim O’Callaghan says, as legal aid dispute ramps up
Minister expresses concern that rape cases were impacted at Central Criminal Court
Huge rise in claims of unlawful detention linked to withdrawal of solicitors’ services
Almost 90 challenges mounted since July at costs ranging from €20,000 to over €40,000 per case
State apology to be delivered to family of late chief prison officer Brian Stack
Taoiseach Micheál Martin will deliver the apology on Wednesday in the Dáil
Net closing on gang that murdered family in Waterford, says Garda Commissioner
Justin Kelly urged victims of drug-related intimidation to come forward, saying supports are available
Court users face further disruption after criminal solicitors escalate action
Criminal defence solicitors to escalate services withdrawal from Monday
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