Employment lawyers are eagerly awaiting the enactment of a Bill which should bring some clarity into the increasingly fraught area of data protection rights in the workplace.

The expert group charged with reviewing Cork’s local government will have access to all documents compiled by the committee that recommended the controversial merger of the city and county councils.

A legal firm that specialises in medical negligence cases has received €11.8m in fees over two years from the State Claims Agency (SCA).

As the festive season draws to a close, I am reminded of a recent interview on Morning Ireland with Mike Allen, director of advocacy at Focus Ireland.

Finance firm Capita Asset Services Ireland has emerged as the big winner in Nama’s payout for professional services in the first six months of this year.

Malawi, “the warm heart of Africa”, ranks in the bottom 15 of the United Nation’s human development index. A huge proportion of its nearly 17m population live in poverty, infant mortality is extremely high, and life expectancy is low.

Richard Bruton’s sweeping changes could face a constitutional challenge as some lawyers see themselves being sidelined, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed that the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) last year paid bonuses to staff for the first time since 2012.

HIGH vacancy levels on Cork City’s South Mall may finally be reversed, with an overall rise in the economy, and in the demand for professional services and indigenous offices.

A defiant Anthony Foley has declared that last week’s leak of an internal player report will galvanise rather than hinder the Munster squad and staff as they approach his first season in charge.

Munster have declared that the embarrassing mix-up over a player review report was a result of basic "human error" and vowed that the embarrassing situation will not happen again in the future.

Tommy Barker discovers a sense of airiness within this detached home that is all nicely modern but not flashy.

Social media giants Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have all moved to remove the images of a teenage girl and a male engaging in a sexual act at an Eminem concert at Slane Castle last weekend.

A GROUP of private pension investors, led by Quintas Wealth Management, has acquired a Bank of Ireland building as an investment, on a return of almost 9% .

Strains of probiotic organisms, semiconductors, and software developers will all battle it out to be crowned UCC’s Invention of the Year.

Intelligent lighting systems producer Adaptive Lighting has been named as the Enterprise Equity Genesis Emerging Business of the Year for 2012.

FRESH entrepreneurial thinking will help lead Ireland to growth and prosperity.

Law firm, Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ), have been confirmed as the official legal advisor to Munster Rugby.

GALWAY legal firm William B Glynn solicitors has been acquired by Ronan Daly Jermyn (RDJ) in a €3 million merger which propels the Cork firm into the top 10 legal firms in the country.

CORK-based Quintas Wealth Management has set up a solar energy investment fund at a cost of €40 million that is set to give a minimum 11% return to its clients.

ERUDITE jester John Cleese, of Fawlty Towers and Monty Python fame, entertained key players in the Irish business and media worlds at the Thomas Crosbie Holdings (TCH) annual dinner in the company’s flagship headquarters on Cork’s South Mall last night.

HUMANITARIAN and rock star Bob Geldof was the guest speaker at Thomas Crosbie Holdings’ annual dinner last night and said that despite being a victim of the paparazzi culture he still believed in absolute free press.

CORK Church of Ireland’s John Jermyn has been named men’s hockey player of the year.

AROUND one-in-four workers would be unhappy to have a Traveller working alongside them, a new survey has found.

Around one in four workers would be unhappy to have a traveller working alongside them, it emerged today.

PROPERTY syndication is becoming increasingly popular among investors, a breakfast seminar was told in Cork yesterday.

IRISH workers will have to work harder and longer if we want to ensure a high standard of living in the years ahead, a top EU official warned yesterday.

Antonis Kastrissianakis, Director of Employment Strategy with the European Commission, has said that unemployment in the new EU member states will remain high and largely structural following EU enlargement.

IAN BAILEY is facing a legal bill of €200,000 after he unsuccessfully sued eight newspapers for libel.

THE shortage of good second-hand houses is helping to underpin the strong current prices being achieved.