Monday 27 September, 2021
A High Court challenge has been brought by Holmes Institute Ireland Ltd against a decision by the Minister for Justice.
This week saw the government announce Justice Helen McEntee will take six months of paid maternity leave, but the conversation has already turned to bigger questions.
McEntee is pregnant with her first child and is due in May
There are no legal provisions for TDs to take parental leave.
Jackie Fox released a statement this evening following the meeting.
People could face up to seven years in prison if they publish intimate images without consent.
Helen McEntee took questions today on the ongoing controversy around Seamus Woulfe’s appointment.
Micheal Martin says the Oireachtas Business Committee should meet to discuss the matter.
Justice Minister Helen McEntee also defended the government’s stance.
The opposition has rejected this offer as “laughable” and “circling the wagons”.
The figures to 1 October this year are down on the 15 deaths that occurred in Irish prisons last year.
The Justice Minister said there will be ‘shock and surprise’ if the UK backs out of NI Protocol.
Minister Helen McEntee has asked the chair of IPAT to prepare a report after Una McGurk addressed the anti-mask rally.
Justice Minster Helen McEntee revealed the latest figure on World Day against Trafficking in Persons.
The Justice Minister made the comments on RTÉ Radio Ones’s This Week programme.
The Depart of Justice said this afternoon that no more than six people are in a room at the East End Hotel centre.
A High Court ruling in July has halted the processing of citizenship applications.
The Justice Minister says over 1,300 asylum seekers are currently in emergency accommodation.
Credit card details could be used to verify a person is over 18 under the new UK rules.
It will also be an offence to send obscene messages using any form of online communications.
The President of the European Commission has proposed to end the changes in Europe next year.
Justice Bernard Barton had earlier awarded the 44-year-old €175,000 general damages.
Critics state the Courts Services continued investment in the tobacco industry flies in the face of the government’s Tobacco Free Ireland vision.
The gun was handed in to Store Street garda station yesterday by a member of the public.
Shane O’Farrell was cycling home in 2011 when he was struck by a car driven by a man who was on bail for a number of offences.
Both students had been studying and working the country for 11 years and were directed to leave after a policy change.
Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice said it isn’t possible to police rural Ireland the same way as Dublin.
The Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland wrote to Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan.
The former High Court judge was tasked with reviewing the situation after two protected disclosures were made to Frances Fitzgerald by gardaí in last October.
He said it was “reasonable” to ask the Taoiseach and his former colleagues to correct the Dáil record.
Both of the high-profile names will be seeking election to the National University of Ireland panel.
The Justice Minister had made the request in response to matters raised by Clare Daly TD.
Prior to January 2014, only 10 family homes or Principal Private Residences were surrendered.
The Justice Minister was recently asked about the health and safety issues at Glanmire and Macroom stations.
The former Justice Minister resigned from his cabinet position last May.
The protection programme was set up as gardaí tackled gangland crime.
The decision was backed by Minister Frances Fitzgerald.
The Oireachtas Justice Committee thinks so.
Geraldine Foy is a researcher for Stardust campaigners and has been in contact with Minister Frances Fitzgerald’s department.
