A Travellers’ rights advocate has won a discrimination case and must get €6,500 compensation and an apology from the head of JD Wetherspoons after the chain’s Dún Laoghaire pub refused to serve her a drink. “I felt such an equal walking into that pub, and horrible walking out,” Margaret O’Leary …

A man involved in “shameful” robberies where he attacked people he approached while begging, took items from an unconscious man on the street and held up a launderette with a knife has been jailed for seven years. Andrew Cash, 32, of no fixed abode, appeared before Judge Pauline Codd in …

A doctors’ group has called for new rules to speed up clinical negligence cases after it said some doctors are facing significant mental health issues due to the length of time it takes to resolve claims. The Medical Protection Society, which gives legal representation and advice to 16,000 doctors in …

The title of the so-called Command Paper setting out the agreement between his party and the British government may as well have been chosen by Jeffrey Donaldson. Perhaps it was. “Safeguarding the Union” has been his message for the past two years since collapsing power-sharing in protest at post-Brexit trade …

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said it is “extremely important” to conduct an independent investigation into claims that 12 of its employees were involved in the 7 October Hamas attack against Israel. Important donors – among them the UK, the United States, Germany and Japan – …

Two men are being questioned about their roles in the riots in Dublin last November during which cars and buses were burned out, shops were looted and millions of euro worth of damage caused. The men, one aged 18, the other in his 20s, are being detained at Store Street …

It’s a busy time for Leaving Cert students with mocks under way or just around the corner. Deadlines around future study options are also in the mix. Chief among them, the closing date for normal applications to the CAO for entry to all first-year undergraduate courses is tomorrow, 1 February, …

The chief executives of social media companies Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord have faced questions on their efforts to combat online child sexual exploitation at a US Senate hearing. Senator Dick Durbin, the Judiciary Committee’s Democratic chairman, cited statistics from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children nonprofit …

A report by a legal firm appointed by RTÉ to conduct a review of voluntary exit packages has found that ten departures did not satisfy the requirements of a redundancy within the meaning of the Redundancy Payments Acts. In these cases, under the 2017 Voluntary Exit Programme, McCann Fitzgerald said …

The jury in the trial of a 34-year-old man accused of the murder of his 78-year-old uncle will resume deliberating on a verdict tomorrow. Thomas Lorigan, of no fixed abode, has pleaded not guilty to murdering John O’Neill at St Brendan’s Road, Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare in January 2022. They jury …