Relations between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have ‘plummeted’ amid accusations of breaches of faith between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin over the Máire Whelan affair.

The Taoiseach has asked Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin to "withdraw " remarks which he made about Máire Whelan in the Dáil.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has rejected claims that President Michael D Higgins was pushed to rush the promotion of the former attorney general to the Court of Appeal, as rows erupted in the Dáil over the move.

Micheál Martin has made a surprising and highly personal attack on Máire Whelan in the Dáil, claiming she is no match to some previous judicial appointments.

On the eve of the 25th anniversary of Albert Reynolds becoming taoiseach, Ryle Dwyer examines a volatile career which saw him scupper coalitions but help build peace.

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The existence of 16 road traffic acts and more than 900 related statutory instruments makes it “extremely difficult” to determine what the law actually is, according to the State’s legal experts.

There is a lot of furrowed browed tut-tutting about the rise of an unhouse-trained ‘nihilist’ left, writes Gerard Howlin

Supreme Court colleagues of the late Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman have described him as a man of energy, oratory, and with flashes of wit. Here, they pay tribute.

The State has lost a “colossus of the legal world” following the death of Supreme Court judge Adrian Hardiman, the chief justice has said.

Many tributes have been paid to Supreme Court Judge Adrian Hardiman who died suddenly yesterday.

A founding member of the PDs, a taoiseach-questioning inquisitor at tribunals, and never afraid to go against the grain, the legal profession has suffered a huge loss, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Supreme Court judge Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman has passed away.

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Gardaí are to get new powers to arrest suspects who breach bail conditions under the terms of a bill published yesterday.

With no appetite for a public inquiry, issues involving gardaí, the State, and Ian Bailey remain unresolved, but co-operation with the French inquiry should stop, writes Michael Clifford

Judgment has been reserved in a Supreme Court case where a woman, who suffered institutional abuse while in state care as a child, was refused in her application for redress because she was too late.

A surgeon’s “slip of the pen” should not have been the basis for him being subjected to the “extremely threatening ordeal” of a public inquiry by the Medical Council, the Supreme Court has said.

The genetic mother of twins born to a surrogate has lost her legal battle to be declared the children’s legal mother on their birth certificate.

The Chief Justice has called for improvements to the way court cases are dealt with following the dismissal of an appeal over an amateur golfer’s claim that he had been falsely accused of cheating about his handicap that lasted 83 days.

The State is to bring an application to dismiss an appeal brought by Joe O’Reilly, who is seeking to have his conviction for murdering his wife declared a miscarriage of justice.

You could, if you wish, remember Albert Reynolds as the man who wrecked two governments. Or you could remember him as the man who built the peace process.

A bid by Catherine Nevin to take an appeal against her conviction for murdering her husband to the Supreme Court has been dismissed on the basis that it contains “absolutely no points of any merit whatsoever”.

A bid by Catherine Nevin to take an appeal against her conviction for murder to the Supreme Court will be heard in July.

A civil engineer who crashed and killed a man while drunkenly driving in the wrong direction down a dual carriageway has been jailed for three years by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A man jailed for five years walked free yesterday after his conviction for IRA membership was quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

How can the French police continue to investigate Ian Bailey while a Supreme Court judge probes allegedly illegal activity by the gardaí over the case, asks Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

Ian Bailey’s solicitor has called for a “root and branch” review of the operation of the State’s entire justice system in the wake of the garda phone-taping crisis.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has found as too harsh the 15-year sentence handed down to a man who assaulted a boy in an unprovoked attack. What is an appropriate sentence, asks Dan Buckley

A unanimous Supreme Court judgment quashing a man’s attempted rape conviction on grounds that suspects who request a lawyer cannot be questioned by gardaí until they get legal advice has significant implications for Garda investigations and may affect some prosecutions.

The Supreme Court has ruled that a man does not have the right to a trial by a bilingual jury.

A majority Supreme Court has ruled a man’s arrest for drink driving was unlawful because he was unjustifiably handcuffed after arrest on foot of a Garda sergeant’s own routine policy.

A Cork man who was jailed for life for the murder of a young Englishman who had joked about his father being in a loyalist organisation has failed in an appeal against his conviction today.

A rapist who was described as a “serious threat to the women of Cork” has been granted bail pending an appeal against the reactivation of the suspended portion of his 18-year sentence.

Dublin criminal and serial child abuser Stephen "Rossi" Walsh will apply for bail pending appeals against his separate convictions for rape, indecent assault and defilement of a child.

The State’s appeal on grounds of undue leniency against the six-month sentence handed down to sex attacker Anthony Lyons will be heard in November.

A second garda killer who “callously” murdered an unarmed sergeant as he lay injured on the ground will be released early following a landmark Supreme Court ruling.

Garda killer Noel Callan will walk free in under two years after a landmark judgment in the Supreme Court ruled he was eligible for remission on his 40-year sentence.

Lawyers for a Dublin man who was jailed for five years for IRA membership were not notified of parts of the belief evidence of a garda Chief Superintendant that helped convict him, the Court of Criminal Appeal has heard.