POLITICAL commitment to the European Convention on Human Rights is “lukewarm at best and hostile at worst”, a major legal conference has heard.

THE defeat of the 30th Amendment to the Constitution on Oireachtas Inquiries has been greeted, perhaps predictably, by comments from ministers Brendan Howlin and Alan Shatter that the electorate was confused, and perhaps even misinformed, about the proposal.

GARDAÍ and immigration officials are unlikely to be subject to Freedom of Information (FoI) legislation any time soon — despite calls from civil rights campaigners to expand the law to bring them under its remit.

IRELAND’S first undergraduate degree programme in criminal justice is to be offered at Waterford Institute of Technology from September.

Irish political parties are neglecting marginalised groups of society while they jockey with each other for votes, it was claimed today.

OTHER Irish people may have used a controversial Swiss “right to die” group to commit suicide, the group’s leader revealed yesterday as he confirmed that a disabled Irishman ended his life in Switzerland last November.

THE Joint Oireachtas Committee investigating the possible impeachment of Circuit Court Judge Brian Curtin is expected to demand access to his computer and files tomorrow.

THE Government remains convinced it will record a comprehensive victory in the citizenship referendum despite the latest opinion poll showing substantial opposition to the proposed change.

POLITICIANS should not have blanket immunity from criminal prosecution, a constitutional law expert said yesterday.

IRISH-BORN children deported with their parents will return and sue the State for breaches of their constitutional rights, a legal expert predicted yesterday.