A new law giving the Government sweeping powers to tackle the spread of Covid-19 has been approved by the Dáil, sitting with just 30% of our TDs.

Security Correspondent Cormac O'Keeffe looks at the unprecedented and sweeping powers in the emergency Covid-19 bill

Concerns have been flagged about emergency legislation set to be implemented to tackle Coronavirus.

Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty has said she hopes that the government will not need to enact powers to monitor mass gatherings or treat those affected by the virus, but who refuse to self-isolate.

Liam Herrick lists eight stumbling blocks to ensuring human rights and equal treatment can become a reality here and how they can be easily fixed

The civil rights bodies claim that there has been an increase in passport checks, which they said follows assurances from both governments that there would be no return to a hard border.

The Taoiseach has been accused of making "disingenuous" and factually incorrect statements about the Direct Provision system for asylum seekers.

Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty has said that based on their own legal advice, her department does not accept the findings of the Data Protection Commissioner in relation to the Public Services Card.

The Government will have to locate the remains of thousands of children who died in Ireland’s mother and baby home system when it ratifies the UN Convention on Enforced Disappearance (CED).

The Public Services Card is in breach of several aspects of data-protection law, according to the state's watchdog.

Social media content moderators need to be afforded supports similar to those provided to frontline workers due to the stresses associated with the job, according to a privacy expert.

The Data Protection Commissioner has said its report into the legality of the government’s Public Services Card will be published shortly.

Never before has contemporary data, personal, corporate or state, been so easily accessed.

The Information Rights Project Manager for the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), Elizabeth Farries, has said that the Irish State is forcing disadvantaged people living in poverty to trade their data to access services to which they are already entitled.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) is “deeply concerned” that the public service card (PSC) may be illegal and that it also impacts on those living in poverty.

The Divorce Referendum is expected to ease into a yes vote with the exit poll showing support of 87%.

The threat of censorship that hangs over artists and writers must be removed once and for all, according to civil rights activists.

The Mother and Baby Homes Commission says it is legally prohibited from informing any surviving family members of the children they have found burial locations for.

The letter sent to the Taoiseach by 60 civil society organisations about what is clearly a hole in the 1997 Electoral Act will not, it is to be hoped, be put in the file marked IBU — Interesting But Unimportant.

The Government’s planned legislation to allow people separated from their families through adoption to have access to their own records and histories has been slammed as “unfit for purpose” by a civil liberties group.

The process of compensating investors who lost money from the 2011 collapse of investment firm Custom House Capital may not be complete for a number of years, the Investor Compensation Company (ICCL) has warned.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has said gardaí policing a property repossession on Tuesday “showed restraint” in the face of physical and verbal abuse, but said the way in which face-covering hoods were used by the Public Order Unit was “not correct”.

The European Court of Human Rights is set to rule tomorrow on privacy rights and surveillance says Elizabeth Farries.

The State has a responsibility to send “a clear message” that hate crime will not be tolerated, the head of the country’s human rights agency has said.

Around 3m people who have been issued Personal Services Cards (PSC) could be entitled to claim compensation from the State, a legal expert has claimed.

The reconsideration of the Kerry Babies’ scandal brought many long-ago questions back into public view.

Human rights officers should be appointed to every area of policing as part of a comprehensive framework to address persistent problems in An Garda Síochána.

Former Supreme Court Judge and first President of the Irish Human Rights Commission, Donal Barrington, has died.

We need to stop focusing on quick-fix solutions but instead work on reframing Irish policing to ground it in the principles of human rights, writes Liam Herrick. 

Draft legislation aimed at reforming State access to communication data is in breach of European law, a leading human rights body has warned.

Governments can now easily see where we’re going, who we’re talking to, and what interests we have. All without our knowledge or consent, writes Elizabeth Farries.

The Government has been urged to be more transparent about plans for the controversial Public Service Card.

Civil rights campaigners say they are seeking clarity around the mandatory use of the public services card as the Government confirmed it will be required to secure passports in future.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties says it will be stressing the importance of inspections and reporting when it addresses the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva today.

Civil rights advocates said the headscarf ban ruling by the European Court of Justice did not appear to “place weight on the importance of freedom of religion”.

Several groups have welcomed the recognition of Traveller’s minority ethnicity status.