The Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017
Ireland lacks a simple way for litigants to bring combined actions. Following the tracker mortgage scandal last year, there has been another attempt to pave the way for multi-party actions…
The Science of A Shorter Workday
The 8-hour work-day was bitterly won. The history of its development has been a tug of war between the anxiety of bosses eager to get the maximum profit out of…
Éireannach ar Erasmus
Ag an tús de mhí Mheán Fómhair seo caite, bhí orm mo mhálaí a phácáil agus dul ar eitleán go dtí an Fhrainc do mo bhliain Erasmus. Cé nach mbím…
What We Can Learn From the Belfast Trial
I am not going to discuss the verdict of the Belfast rugby rape trial. A legal decision has been reached in favour of the four accused. However, this article will…
Justice For All
Following the result of the Paddy Jackson trial, there has been scrutiny over the manner in which rape trials are conducted. In the past few days alone there have been…
Court of Appeal Dismisses Man Accused of Sexual Abuse
The Court of Appeal has turned down an appeal from a 2016 case involving a man accused of seventeen counts of rape and sexual assault. Justice Mahon read out the…
Sleeping With The Fishes
Everyone does it. Everyone suffers if we don’t do it. Sleeping. We spend a whole third of our lives sleeping (or we’re supposed to) and yet… we don’t understand it.…
Online Advertising & The 8th Amendment Referendum
Now that the Referendum on the 8th Amendment has formally been called and a polling date set for May 25th we can all expect to see a serous uptick in…
The Advent of Virtual Reality Psychological Assessment
Virtual Reality (VR) is something everyone has at least heard about, if not actually used. It’s an advanced form of human-computer interaction in which 3D computer-generated images are presented to…
Where Have All The Activists Gone?
The students, united, will never be defeated. The rallying cry of the Take Back Trinity campaign protesters bellows around the hallowed front square of Trinity College Dublin. The ever-present groups…
Is Ireland Actually Neutral?
Ireland is apparently a neutral country. That is what we have always been always been told, and this is best expressed via the triple lock mechanism employed in the rule…
The Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017
Ireland lacks a simple way for litigants to bring combined actions. Following the tracker mortgage scandal last year, there has been another attempt to pave the way for multi-party actions…