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
New issue of Charlie Hebdo sells out across FranceFirst batch of 500,000 magazine copies quickly snapped up by customersWed Jan 14 2015 - 11:33
L’explication: What the Charlie Hebdo cartoons sayMagazine back on sale one week after the terrorist attackWed Jan 14 2015 - 05:00
France’s Jews question future in aftermath of Islamist killingsMembers of country’s 500,000-strong Jewish community shaken by Paris killingsWed Jan 14 2015 - 05:00
Cross-border investigation under way as focus turns to security ‘lapses’Serious questions about last week’s attacks will be asked by agenciesTue Jan 13 2015 - 01:02
Defiance and fraternity as millions march in FranceThe same words were on every lips, on every placard: ‘Je suis Charlie’Mon Jan 12 2015 - 06:35
Paris pays tribute to three dead police officers – and says ‘Merci’On the silent march through Paris people carried placards declaring ‘Je Suis Policier’Mon Jan 12 2015 - 01:01
World leaders turn up in Paris to express solidarityA million and a half people marched behind political leaders in ParisMon Jan 12 2015 - 01:00
Reports Ireland being used as a hub by jihadis being ‘monitored carefully’Taoiseach says meeting of the security committee took place on SaturdaySun Jan 11 2015 - 18:37
Paris gunman’s girlfriend travelled to SyriaAuthorities believe Hayat Boumeddiene (26) flew to Istanbul days before the attacks on her way to SyriaSun Jan 11 2015 - 08:43
France mourns as hunt for ‘Charlie Hebdo’ gunmen continues in wake of Paris attackPolice search 20km sq area of Picardie for brothers Cherif and Said KouachiFri Jan 09 2015 - 06:58
Dignified 60 seconds of silence serves as counterpoint to fraught, horrified FrancePresident François Hollande calls for unity, saying ‘nothing can divide us’Fri Jan 09 2015 - 01:00
French political parties endorse unity and put the national interest first – for nowHollande appeals for national unity and so far the political truce has heldThu Jan 08 2015 - 23:00
Paris attacks: ID card left in car put police on trail of brothersAuthorities had a particularly detailed file on 32-year-old Chérif KouachiThu Jan 08 2015 - 19:49
Paris on the edge as France in day of mourningHundreds of police and soldiers patrol airports, train stations and newspaper officesThu Jan 08 2015 - 15:23
Any attempt to extradite David Drumm fraught with difficultyAnalysis: Irish authorities frustrated in attempts to draw Drumm into Anglo inquiriesWed Jan 07 2015 - 13:01
New Government Bill to speed up asylum processRequests for refugee status and other protection being streamlinedWed Jan 07 2015 - 09:50
Same-sex marriage vote should not be taken for granted - MinisterFrances Fitzgerald says referendum may not support extending civil marriage to same-sex couplesMon Jan 05 2015 - 01:00
Life support for brain-dead pregnant woman withdrawnFamily may proceed with burial following St Stephen’s Day High Court decisionSun Dec 28 2014 - 11:54
Deep sense of sadness in case of clinically dead pregnant womanANALYSIS: High Court judges pay tribute to father and partner for ‘immense courage’Sat Dec 27 2014 - 07:54
Doctors to switch off pregnant woman’s life support following rulingAll medical evidence suggested chances of successful live birth ‘virtually non-existent’Sat Dec 27 2014 - 06:22
Varadkar says ruling on brain dead woman must be examinedHSE says judgment a ‘welcome decision’ after traumatic number of days for the familyFri Dec 26 2014 - 15:19
High Court told keeping brain-dead pregnant woman on life support would be ‘grotesque’Three-judge court to gives its verdict on St Stephen’s DayWed Dec 24 2014 - 10:34
Scale of tragedy, depth of distress too big to processAtmosphere at out-of-term court sitting on right-to-life case is grave and purposefulWed Dec 24 2014 - 08:12
Medics called for guidelines after two previous casesLife support maintained in Waterford and Galway cases of maternal brain deathTue Dec 23 2014 - 01:00
Lawyers to represent ‘unborn’ in case of woman on life supportCase to be heard by three judges at a special sitting in High CourtTue Dec 23 2014 - 01:00
Woman on life support: medics feared legal positionFather of ‘clinically dead’ pregnant woman may seek ward-of-court status to administer affairsMon Dec 22 2014 - 06:18
Influencing EU law depends on input in drafting processMichael McDowell warns against judicial activism in book written for late Rory BradySat Dec 20 2014 - 01:00
Family’s private anguish rekindles Ireland’s strained debate on rights of unborn child - againCase could present conflict between right to life and right to die a natural deathThu Dec 18 2014 - 14:09
Michael Lynn’s seven-year saga edges towards its final actThe archetypal prince of the Irish boom fled with debts of €80 millionTue Dec 16 2014 - 20:18
Cabinet approves changes to diluted legal services overhaulCreation of new ‘one-stop-shops’ now subject to public consultationTue Dec 09 2014 - 20:32