European Court of Justice to decide later this year on fate of directive which Ictu views as ‘the most significant and far-reaching’ on workers’ rights in decades
Court of Justice of the EU takes an average of 16 months to rule on such matters referred by national courts
Mr Justice Barry O’Donnell said questions of EU law are ‘at the heart’ of the challenges
A judge ruled that seven men brought to Albania by an Italian warship on Friday cannot be detained in Albania
Reconciling the GDPR with the AI Act poses issues, but I think they are minor compared to the hard problem of making the new safety code work in any realistic way
Tánaiste says legislation may not be passed during Dáil term because existing bill is ‘unconstitutional’ and will need to be amended
Ireland’s chief rabbi says Israel is not waging a war of retaliation. But the Israeli government’s stated policy is that the war is one of the destruction of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities
Former midfielder Lassana Diarra challenged rules in potentially explosive case that brings concept of transfer fees into question
Bodies including EU Commission and Parliament offer career opportunities for Irish interpreters and translators
The €13bn tax case, while unwelcome, always related to times long past with no real impact for any of the players going forward
Revenue, under its own rules, did not have jurisdiction to tax the bulk of Apple’s offshore profits
Apple’s windfall cash will help fund State investment, but promises about top-class education, green energy and abundant water count for little without delivery
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Account set up in 2018 to collect and hold funds pending outcome of dispute now amounts to €14bn
Minister for Finance pushes back against idea ruling could make Ireland a less attractive place to invest
Ireland remains central to a rotten system that deprives some of the poorest countries in the world of much needed tax revenue
Tech multinational says case ‘has never been about how much tax we pay, but which government we are required to pay it to’
ECJ Apple-Ireland tax ruling: EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager ordered Apple in 2016 to pay the State more than €13bn in alleged back taxes but that decision has been subject to legal appeals
Irish entity lost €8.2m after tax last year, down from profits of more than €41m in 2022
Top EU court rules €150m loan was legal
Mr Justice Richard Humphreys said An Taisce’s case raised novel, complex and important issues of EU law
Court of Appeal presidency is second most senior judicial position in the State
Deterioration in supplies due in the main to sustained problems of hazardous THMs and parasite cryptosporidium
Dwyer made similar, not identical, arguments in appeal against murder conviction
Decision now set to be made months later than had been expected
Long running row over “big mac” trademark has held up Supermac’s from possible Europe expansion
Companies had taken case over Italian law regulating online service providers
Length of adjournment in Data Protection Commission case likely to be short, court says
Uisce Éireann to issue explanatory booklets to almost 300,000 people served by supplies with high levels of THMs
Ecologist says decision is ‘disgraceful’ as it has been 13 years since original complaint was made
Chlorine helps ensure safe drinking water, but organic matter can react with the chlorine to form trihalomethanes
European Court of Justice decision notes affected supplies are ‘by definition, a potential danger to human health’
European Commission issues separate warning over improper treatment of urban waste water
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