Alan Shatter

Life as a judge’s tipstaff: ‘If you want to see real life, come into a courtroom’

Judges’ personal aides see a lot: verbal attacks, judgments flung across rooms, and occasionally ‘very violent’ incidents

Miriam Lord’s Week: TDs and Senators eager for their close-ups in The Tubridy Show

Committee hearings into RTÉ payments controversy provided stark contrast between top performers and those who scaled soaring heights of incoherence

New Irish citizens thanked for ‘choosing Ireland as the home of your heart and the home of our future’

Almost 4,000 new Irish citizens will attend four ceremonies in Killarney over the next two days

Want to hold high office? You have to swear an oath to God regardless of what you believe

Rite & Reason: Surely the very act of swearing an insincere oath to a god you don’t believe in flies in the face of the integrity of the office being assumed?

Paschal Donohoe’s usefulness to Varadkar and Martin will save him

Minister is getting a chance Fine Gael denied Alan Shatter, Frances Fitzgerald and Phil Hogan

Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin owe Alan Shatter an apology

Gerard Howlin: The ex-minister was badly treated by a political system that still won’t say sorry

Alan Shatter claims ‘apartheid’ over Palestinians a ‘big lie’

Amnesty’s description of Israel’s behaviour and treatment rejected by ex-minister

Alan Shatter: West must call Putin’s bluff and impose no-fly zone over Ukraine

World’s democracies cannot give arms and aid and then just watch the slaughter

Nóirín O’Sullivan: ‘Having your good name destroyed is a huge thing’

Allegations against former garda commissioner have been dismissed by tribunal

Shatter writes letter of complaint to Dáil over parliamentary question about Israel

Government clear on Israel’s responsibility under international law, Coveney says

Miriam Lord’s Week: A black pudding paean at controversial SF event

Commemoration for IRA volunteer featured the famous Clonakilty breakfast product

Senior Garda appointed to lead investigation into Donegal hospital incident

Covid patient Joe McCarron encouraged to leave against medical advice and later died

Fr Niall Molloy: Unpacking the financial dealings between the priest and the Flynns

‘The Killing Of Father Niall Molloy’ part 2 concludes the community averted its gaze

Murphy hits back hard at critics over mother and baby home report

Controversy over report far from over following commission chair’s robust response

Israeli ambassador accuses some TDs of spewing ‘hate’ towards Jewish state

Varadkar says Israel’s aggression is ‘unacceptable’ while condemning Hamas for human rights violations

Alan Shatter: ‘I was effectively cancelled, completely’

The former minister will ‘never fully get over’ the circumstances of his departure from cabinet

Judges’ meeting on personal injuries plan set to be delayed again

Isme chief airs concerns over crunch meeting on personal injury awards

My first year as a TD: ‘I felt like I was working in a blizzard’

The pandemic has made for an unusual first year in the Dáil for some 40 deputies

Alan Shatter wants Taoiseach to apologise fully for ‘damage done’ by Guerin report

Ex-minister responds as Martin says redacted report will be placed in Oireachtas library

Miriam Lord: No room at the Leinster House inn for former TDs and senators

Christmas visits off the menu as Oireachtas restaurant only open to serving members

Redacted version of report that led to Alan Shatter resignation, placed in Oireachtas library

Taoiseach tells Dáil paragraphs removed following 2019 Supreme Court judgment

The Irish Times view on legal services: breaking the monopoly

Even as Ireland changes, the legal sector somehow manages to trundle on, ever-resistant to external attempts to change how it works

Woulfe meeting with Chief Justice cancelled after medical report submitted

Denham found should not have attended golf dinner but resignation would be unjust

Thirty years on, Ireland’s smoky coal ban remains an urgent issue

Some, including initial proponent Mary Harney, argue the ban should be nationwide

Peter Kelly profile: Fearless legal force for half a century

President of the High Court steps down from career defending vulnerable, young and old

Gambling in Ireland: A billion euro self-regulated industry

Regulator still doesn’t exist in Ireland but will the new government change that?

Thursday’s Dáil thrown into chaos after row over motion to remove Guerin report

Report was to be removed from Oireachtas library in light of 2019 Supreme Court ruling

Dáil motion tabled to remove Guerin report from record

Move to withdraw report follows Supreme Court judgment vindicating Alan Shatter

Election 2020 fact check: Has Fine Gael cut Garda stations and recruitment?

McDonald claimed Varadkar’s government and FG-Labour coalition made cutbacks

Election 2020 outtakes: Fianna Fáil gets lost in the post

Fine Gael scraps with Greens in Limerick with Shatter’s wounds far from healing

Election 2020: Dublin Rathdown constituency profile

List of high-profile scalps claimed by voters of this constituency is long and impressive

Stephen Collins: The virtual silence on Shatter's hounding from office is odd

Frenzied reporting helped ensure the former minister was wrongly hounded from office

Maria Bailey absent for key Oireachtas meeting

Fine Gael TD withdraws personal injury case against Dean hotel but fallout continues

Guerin should apologise and explain his actions, Alan Shatter says

Shatter does not understand why Guerin went outside terms of reference

Facebook urged government to spend more on data privacy regulator

Company was worried that big EU states would block Ireland from running one-stop shop on data protection

Divorce referendum: We must allow people to marry again

Legal freedom to remarry and have a ‘second chance’ strengthens institution of marriage

Shatter accuses campaigners of attempting to bully Eurovision singer

Former Minister for Justice says Palestinian campaigners are targeting Sarah McTernan

Minister’s wife among 3,000 new Irish citizens conferred

Brexit a catalyst for some UK applicants, 312 of whom received citizenship on Monday

Maurice McCabe: He fought the law – and he won

Whistleblower review: This darkly enthralling story really is one of good versus bad

The clocks have gone back, but is it for the last time?

Ready for 4am June dawns, 10ams in December and resetting at the Border?

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