MORE THAN 3,400 couples divorced last year, marking a slight increase on 2005.

LANDLORDS who don’t maintain their properties could be hauled before the courts in a local test of new national legislation.

The Law Reform Commission has recommended the establishment of a process to allow appeals against sentences handed down by District Courts.

PROPOSALS contained in the Intoxicating Liquor Bill are nonsensical and legally impossible to enforce, a leading criminal law expert has said.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has reiterated its opposition to sections of the Liquor Licensing Bill that row back on equality legislation introduced just a few years ago.

A coalition of 11 civil rights groups has expressed its anger at government plans to water down equality legislation to appease publicans.

A COALITION of equality and civil rights groups is to launch a major campaign against key parts of new alcohol legislation.