Supreme Court decision offers gardaí ‘get-out clause’Michael O’Higgins SC thinks decision relaxing criminal evidence rules has huge implicationsFri Apr 17 2015 - 13:58
Supreme Court judge criticises ruling on evidence in trialsAdrian Hardiman says ruling gives Garda ‘effective immunity from judicial oversight’Thu Apr 16 2015 - 01:01
Landmark decision rewrites evidence rulebookDivisions emerge as judges relax controls on use of evidence obtained in breach of rightsThu Apr 16 2015 - 01:00
School funding not affected by referendum stance, says HowlinConcern that lack of same-sex marriage support will affect funding is a ‘red herring’Wed Apr 15 2015 - 10:25
Sinn Féin promises ‘vigorous’ campaign for same-sex marriageMany people have a family member, friend or colleague who is gay, says Gerry AdamsWed Apr 15 2015 - 09:11
Mary Lou McDonald stands over Ansbacher commentsSinn Féin TD denies she abused Dáil privilege by naming former politiciansTue Apr 14 2015 - 14:02
Q&A: The same-sex marriage referendumEverything you need to know ahead of vote on constitutional change on May 22ndMon Apr 13 2015 - 23:14
Status of marriage will remain unchanged if amendment passedReferendum Commission guide to be sent to 2 million households at end of monthMon Apr 13 2015 - 15:50
Removing surrogacy from Bill ‘a breach of faith’, says Alan ShatterConcern over generating controversy key to dropping surrogacy from children’s Bill, says former ministerMon Mar 30 2015 - 01:40
Give Me a Crash Course In . . . the Israeli electionA sharp veer to the right has secured a fourth term as PM for Binyamin Netanyahu. What does it mean for a peace deal with the Palestinians?Sat Mar 21 2015 - 01:00
Brian O’Donnell appeal hearing adjourned until TuesdayJudgement expected by end of next week as court very anxious to ‘finalise this matter’Fri Mar 20 2015 - 19:18
Court extends order to vacate Gorse HillO’Donnells want court to overturn decision granting trespass order to bankFri Mar 20 2015 - 01:00
Brian O’Donnell and wife granted 24-hour reprieve by appeal courtStay extended on Gorse Hill departure order pending outcome of couple’s legal challengeThu Mar 19 2015 - 19:43
Brian O’Donnell gets six-day reprieve on Gorse HillCourt of Appeal grants solicitor stay on south Dublin mansion pending appealSat Mar 14 2015 - 01:00
Israel election: French corner of Israel turns spotlight on immigrant constituencyFrench-speaking estate agents in town of Netanya see a boom in businessFri Mar 13 2015 - 21:32
O’Donnells granted six-day stay on order to leave Gorse HillJustice Sean Ryan says stay granted so Mr O’Donnell can present appeal next ThursdayFri Mar 13 2015 - 11:39
Brian O’Donnell to find out if he can appeal court orderO’Donnell may be able to appeal High Court order requiring vacation of Gorse Hill homeFri Mar 13 2015 - 01:00
O’Donnell to call banking experts for bankruptcy challenge‘Two weeks to go through two feet thick of documents is not reasonable,’ says Brian O’DonnellThu Mar 12 2015 - 22:16
Tech millionaire Naftali Bennett positions himself to lead Israeli rightCharismatic former Netanyahu aide’s views on Palestinians place him far from mainstreamThu Mar 12 2015 - 22:14
Isaac Herzog, the Irish-Israeli aiming for a St Patrick’s Day election surprisePolls show the scion of the ‘Israeli Kennedys’ has momentum in campaign’s final daysThu Mar 12 2015 - 01:00
Israeli election: liberal atheist settlers bring price boom to ArielA place that exemplifies normalisation of settlements in Israeli life draws young peopleWed Mar 11 2015 - 01:00
Government decision in 2010 shut down ‘head shops’ overnightNumber of pending cases affected by fallout from Court of Appeal’s decision thought to be smallTue Mar 10 2015 - 21:24
Bibi or Bougie? Israelis go to polls in an election that could redraw the political mapA campaign dominated by housing and the cost of living has left the peace process sidelinedMon Mar 09 2015 - 20:00
Doctors’ group objects to anonymous donor banObstetricians warn TDs that plan could ‘drive donor conception underground’Mon Mar 09 2015 - 01:00
High political burlesque: So what is the New Land League?The group says it will assist anybody whose family home is being threatened by banksSat Mar 07 2015 - 05:55
Gaza: war is over, for nowAfter last summer’s war, residents of the suburb of Shejaia returned to a barely recognisable expanse of rubble. Six months on, it hasn’t changed much, and people fear another conflictSat Mar 07 2015 - 01:00
Shatter warns Family Bill will end donor-assisted reproductionExchanges between Shatter and Frances Fitzgerald dominate committee meetingThu Mar 05 2015 - 12:25
Receiver expected to move against O’DonnellsLatest move follows expiry of deadline for couple to vacate Vico Road houseThu Mar 05 2015 - 01:00
Dóchas concerned over third resignation at Irish Red CrossSecretary general Donal Forde resigns over corporate governance and direction of charityThu Mar 05 2015 - 01:00
Flanagan has debut on Middle East diplomatic tightropeQ Why was Charlie Flanagan in Palestine and Israel this week?Sat Feb 21 2015 - 01:00
Charlie Flanagan says time running out for Israeli-Palestinian pactIreland committed to two-state solution and opposed to settlement expansion – MinisterWed Feb 18 2015 - 19:09
Government pledges €4.7m to help Palestinian refugeesMinister for Foreign Affairs says he is ‘truly shocked’ by destruction in Gaza after warMon Feb 16 2015 - 19:15
TCD takes legal action over Dublin language school’s use of ‘Trinity’ nameCollege says Trinity Language School infringes its intellectual property rightsSat Feb 14 2015 - 01:00
Gender disparity at top of Foreign Affairs highlightedDepartmental audit found women twice as likely to say approach to gender equality insufficientFri Feb 13 2015 - 01:00
Same-sex marriage a matter of equality, says rights watchdogHuman Rights and Equality Commission welcomes referendum due in MayThu Feb 12 2015 - 13:36
DPP told Howlin’s department it could make no budget cutsOffice said proposed €1.9m cut was equal to half cost of prosecuting murder and rapeWed Feb 11 2015 - 01:00
New role: Chief Justice Susan Denham assumes presidency of European judges’ networkMon Feb 09 2015 - 01:05
Legal conundrum hinges on the definition of the ‘unborn’Constitutional lawyers differ over abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormalityFri Feb 06 2015 - 22:22
Sub judice is not necessarily the ultimate conversation-stopperCeann Comhairle Seán Barrett could have let the debate in the Dáil go aheadSat Jan 31 2015 - 01:00
Holocaust victims must not be let ‘die twice’, says PresidentMichael D Higgins, at memorial service, says world has duty to remember those who diedMon Jan 26 2015 - 10:02
State rejected plan to mark 1916 with €12m tourism initiativeHead of centenary project said initiative could generate money, jobs and visitorsMon Jan 26 2015 - 01:00
Irish opposition and trade unions welcome Syriza victorySinn Féin congratulates party of Tsipras and Siptu supports call for debt conferenceSun Jan 25 2015 - 21:19
Alan Shatter loses appeal against Mick Wallace data rulingJudge finds claim that former minister had no standing to take appeal ‘well founded’Wed Jan 21 2015 - 10:43
Same-sex marriage referendum countdown beginsYes and No sides hone their strategies as both expect a tightly-fought campaignWed Jan 21 2015 - 01:00
Government nominates new High Court judgeIsobel Kennedy SC appointed following Court of Appeal reshuffleTue Jan 20 2015 - 18:10
Changes to the way judges are selectedMinister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald outlines her plans for judiciary and the opening up of the legal professionMon Jan 19 2015 - 01:30
Charlie Hebdo attack: In praise of... FranceEvents of past 10 days remind of some ways in which France is the same – and differentFri Jan 16 2015 - 22:37
France arrests 54 for anti-Semitism and backing terrorStand-up comedian Dieudonné among those arrested for hate speech and defending terrorismThu Jan 15 2015 - 01:00
‘It’s Charlie. Come quick. They’re all dead’Eyewitnesses recall horror of attack at Paris magazine officeThu Jan 15 2015 - 01:00
Charlie Hebdo increases print run of latest issue to five millionFirst 700,000 copies sell out within minutesWed Jan 14 2015 - 12:51
