The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has officially appealed the enforcement notice served upon it regarding the Public Services Card by the Data Protection Commissioner.

A €5m fine has been imposed on the State by the EU’s top court over a failure to comply with EU legislation that might have prevented landslides linked to the construction of a windfarm in the west of Ireland in 2003.

The Government’s decision to challenge the Data Protection Commissioner’s highly adversarial rulings on the Public Services Card has been condemned as “ludicrous” and “incredibly bizarre”.

It will be two years before the Government knows for sure if Ireland will have a vote on ratification of a final Mercosur agreement.

A man who got refugee status here more than 25 years ago but has been refused citizenship on “national security” grounds has appealed to the Supreme Court.

The ruling on July 26 by the Court of Justice of the European Union is frankly absurd. The case was brought by the Confederation paysanne (a French agricultural union which

The EU’s top court is to rule later this month on whether An Bord Pleanála properly assessed the environmental impact on the habitat of the hen harrier of a proposed €80m wind farm in Tipperary.

A legal row over which State body should examine claims of discrimination arising from maximum age limits on new entrants to the gardaí will become before the EU’s top court today .

Fair Trial Europe has applied to join High Court extradition proceedings involving Artur Celmer, who is wanted to face trial in his native Poland on drug trafficking charges.

The European Commission is to bring Ireland back to the EU Court of Justice over issues connected to the Derrybrien windfarm, as well as seeking to impose almost €2m in fines.

The paper on Ireland was full of well-meaning statements of intent, particularly around not wanting the return of any border, but gave nothing by way of detail as to how such a pipe dream is to be delivered, writes Daniel McConnell.

David Davis will push ahead with plans to pull Britain out of the European civil nuclear regulator during Brexit talks in Brussels next week despite fears it could it could hit cancer treatments.

The Supreme Court has referred to Europe the question of whether the Equality Tribunal has the power to decide if the 35-year age limit for joining the Garda Siochana is discriminatory.

“Locals only” does not always apply in Kerry – the county with one of the most stringent planning laws of any county, the councillor Maura Healy-Rae says.

Europe’s top court will begin a landmark case today which could determine whether luxury goods companies can stop retailers from selling their products via marketplaces such as Amazon or eBay.

A second legal bid could soon be launched in a bid to derail Brexit, this time in the Irish courts.

The case of a transgender person in England who was refused the female state pension at the age of 60 after she chose to stay married is to be looked at by judges in Europe.

Google has been ordered to remove nine links to news stories by Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the “right to be forgotten” ruling.

The Government has appointed a former Fine Gael senator to a highly paid European role worth €250,000 per year.

A last-ditch bid by retired solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his wife to prevent a bank-appointed receiver taking possession of their former family home in Killiney, Co Dublin, at noon today has failed at the Supreme Court.

Mario Draghi can ‘do what it takes’ to save the eurozone, but must proceed with care while doing so.

Permanent TSB Group Holdings Plc may raise as much as €400m in a share sale, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, more than double the amount signalled by the lender last month.

An Taisce has lost a fight to take its case over a new nuclear power station on the west coast of England to Europe.

An Taisce has launched a fight to take its case over a new nuclear power station on the west coast of England to Europe.

The Irish High Court has gone to Europe over a privacy law ruling that could have major repercussions, writes Maria Helen Murphy

The HSE and Garda are investigating how a troubled European teenager was placed with a family who had not been vetted and from whom he fled, going missing for 48 hours.

EU OFFICIALS have laid out a new agreement to tighten fiscal rules for the eurozone and other participating EU countries yesterday, hoping to push ahead with deeper economic integration and get on top of the two-year-old debt crisis.

Internet service providers cannot be required to install filters that would prevent the illegal downloading of files, an EU court says.

RESIDENCY rights for foreign parents of Irish citizen children was the biggest issue concerning migrants this year, said the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI).

IN your report “Child custody applications soared by 44% last year” (May 17), the reporter Noel Baker claimed that “a legal source said the increase was not due to more marriages falling apart in the recession, as divorce and separation statistics have remained consistent.

A legal ruling giving youngsters born in the EU the right to stay in a member country with their non-national parents could have major implications for Ireland, it was warned.