While Ireland is renowned for its charitable nature, trustees of charities have come under “considerable pressure” here in the last 12 months and faced some “significant challenges”, according to a senior counsel.

The volunteer historian who uncovered details of a mass grave at the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam has been honoured as a "fearless campaigner for human rights".

Discrimination, “pigeon-holing”, delaying having children for the sake of a career, and poor career progress are among the challenges facing women across the medical and legal professions, new research shows.

Lawyers are set to demand fee hikes for representing free legal aid clients in the criminal courts — just as the justice minister plans to tighten up the scheme and perhaps even disband it.

The capitulation of the Government to the legal profession displays again how vested interests can hold others to ransom, writes Michael Clifford

The three members of the British government-appointed independent panel that examined the extent of paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland are:

High Court Judge Liam McKechnie has been appointed to the Supreme Court, a government spokesman said today.