Legislators need to define what “harmful communication” is before they try and address the problem in laws, a legal expert has said.

It is not coincidental that demagogues silence the voices, the institutions — and standards — that challenge them.

Rapist Patrick Nevin attacked three women he met on Tinder, but a criminal background check of every user of a dating app would be arduous, writes Joyce Fegan.

The UK is putting considerable effort into changing its laws around surrogacy but what about Ireland? asks Brian Tobin

Four months on, Isme — the association representing small- and medium-size companies — is the latest trade body to wonder if the ministry’s understanding of the word “progress” is different to that which exists beyond its walls.

FIFTY apartments in Cork’s Harty’s Quay, earning €760,000 a year in rent after 40% rental growth since they last sold, are included as part of one of the country’s largest sell-off of buy-to-let units.

New laws designed to tackle revenge pornography and upskirting are welcome but the government needs to include proper sanctions in any measures, domestic abuse charities have warned.

Labour party leader Brendan Howlin has said those found guilty of revenge porn should be added to a sex offenders register.

Department of Finance officials vehemently rejected accusations by a TD that they are “batting for the banks” by opposing the so-called “no consent, no sale” bill.

AN overseas property investment company acquired over 300 apartments in Cork in 2018, in two strong swoops for €67m combined - instantly making it the region’s largest PRS [Private Rented Sector] landlord to date.

The Law Reform Commission (LRC) has published a paper proposing major changes as to how compulsory purchase orders (CPO) are conducted.

Not a single person has been jailed over the last 10 years for health and safety offences, including where fatalities occurred, or for competition breaches.

AFTER a weekend when Tipperary and Galway’s performances in Croke Park so stirred the blood, it might be tempting to bask in the happy idea that hurling is our national game — or at least one of them. 

The State’s legal advisory body is expected to make recommendations in relation citizen journalists and campaigners posting commentary on social media questioning the evidence of witnesses during trials in a forthcoming review of the law on contempt of court.

The State’s independent legal advisory body has not been requested to examine the country’s surveillance laws — eight months after the Government said it planned to do so.

Commuters face travel chaos and an all-out bus strike after talks between Bus Éireann and unions collapsed.

Hundreds of Irish Water staff are in line for large lump sums of money, with the resumption of controversial bonus payments. These are expected to be paid next month, with a 2.2% pay rise.

The Government has given the green light for legislation to criminalise revenge porn and to extend the law in relation to stalking and harassment.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said a Law Reform Commission report on online abuse has highlighted potential gaps in the law.

New criminal offences and a powerful oversight agency are being recommended to combat online abuse, such as cyberbullying and revenge porn.

The Government is looking at new ways to tackle so-called revenge porn.

Rapid take-down orders and new offences are among the recommendations to tackle so-called revenge porn.

We need robust laws to tackle online abuse and cybercrime in Ireland, the Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald has said.

The Law Reform Commission is seeking out opinions on the law that deals with children contesting their parent or parents’ will, writes Dan Buckley

The country’s communications watchdog has called for an increase in the level of financial penalties that can be imposed on companies for breaching industry regulations.

While Irish politicians continue to peddle the currency of deceit, Jeremy Corbyn is trying to stay true to himself — and will probably destroy Britain’s Labour party and its hopes for regaining power in the process, writes Shaun Connolly

Ministers have been accused of standing over a bonus culture at Irish Water after welcoming pay boosts for workers at the utility.

Irish Water employees are to receive pay increments of between 1.5 to 3% until the end of next year, after which they will be able to receive “performance-related awards”.

Thousands of commuters could face travel disruption following a decision by train driver unions to ballot for industrial action after talks with Iarnród Éireann broke down last week.

The entire rail network could be ground to a halt as early as the end of this month after talks between unions and Irish Rail broke down at the Labour Relations Commission last night.

Killers like Eamonn Lillis should not be able to get their hands on their spouse’s assets, including the victim’s share of the family home, according to the State’s expert legal body.

The Law Reform Commission will today launch its insurance contracts report, which will make 100 recommendations for changing legislation that governs agreements between insurance companies and their customers.

Hundreds of Irish Water workers are set to take action in order to receive controversial bonuses initially outlined in their contracts, in a politically sensitive move that comes at exactly the wrong time for Government.

Michael Noonan’s Department of Finance faces having to endorse a looming pay rise agreement in the coming weeks for 5,500 staff at AIB, the lender bailed out at a cost of €20 billion to taxpayers.

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation at Beaumont Hospital have agreed to defer industrial action.

The Psychiatric Nurses Association and the HSE are to recommence talks at the LRC over the row at University College Hospital Galway.

The battle to get a new €15m acute psychiatric unit open at Cork University Hospital (CUH) remains deadlocked. All bar four out of 42 nurses have voted not to transfer to the new facility on the grounds that the HSE has not fully addressed their clinical concerns. One of those nurses, Des McSweeney, highlighted his worries in an Irish Examiner article on March 16. For a while, he was put off duty with pay. Despite a no vote, Des is concerned that nurses will be overruled by the Labour Court, where the dispute is now headed.

A second nurses’ union has rejected proposals aimed at ending an impasse that has already caused a four-month delay in the opening of a €15m acute psychiatric unit at Cork University Hospital.

Efforts to end a row that has led to a four-month delay in opening a €15m psychiatric facility received a major setback after nurses last night unanimously rejected proposals by the Labour Relations Commission.

With plans to open an acute psychiatric unit at Cork University Hospital running five months behind schedule, a senior HSE manager has issued a plea to nursing staff to transfer to the new facility.

Unions representing drivers at Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus will return to the talks table at the Labour Relations Commission later.