Nearly 40 years ago legal philosopher, Ronald Dworkin, postulated heroic Judge Hercules, an idealised judge with superhuman intelligence and unlimited time. Two impressive recent studies suggest the ...

By Frank Connolly a 35-acre site at Liscarton was purchased for €500,000 in 2016 and placed on the market for €4.2m a year later, after rezoning A public inquiry by the Standards in Public Office ...

I now live in Leatherhead, the beginning and end of H.G. Wells’s prophetic War of the Worlds (1898). Wells summoned a Martian invasion of sleepy Essex in a parable of complacency. In my last ...

Boiling water contaminated with THMs does not make it safe; it compounds the danger. Ireland is now in clear breach of EU law and permitting a growing risk to public health. By Tony Lowes Uisce ...

Calling an expert witness who is unable or unwilling to comply with their duties may also have adverse consequences in costs. The Courts can join non-party [experts and lawyers] for that purpose” ...

Although the Department of Enterprise originally did not disclose the number, it has now revealed that all 18 of the 18 applications reviewed in the audit of the Immigrant Investment Programme were ...

Government sole bidder on €11 million Dowth Hall estate purchase with millions more to be spent over the next few years. By Conor O’Carroll. The government was the sole bidder on the Dowth Hall estate ...

Half the CEOs of commercial state companies earn in excess of €250,000 a year despite pay ceiling. By Conor O’Carroll. Just over €75 million has been spent on the salary and benefits of Chief ...

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Three investigations are underway at the hospital into allegations of racism. By Conor O’Carroll. At least three independent investigations into serious allegations of racism are underway at Cork ...