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Professor Emeritus Garrett Barden, who has died aged 84, had a long and distinguished career at University College Cork and was the author of well-regarded books.

On Friday 8 March 2024, we are being asked to vote on two proposed changes to the Constitution. B...

There may be a danger of replacing one ambiguity with another in redefining ‘family’

Achieving diversity within the predominantly middle-class judiciary is likely to take time

Only the Government is entrusted to decide whether the Supreme Court should be liberal or conservative in character

Basing judicial appointments on ‘merit’ is welcome but Bill’s failure to define merit is ‘problematic’ says constitutional law expert

The collaboration will support the appointment of a new Assistant Professor in EU Law, award a PhD scholarship in EU law, and create a new Trinity Matheson EU seminar series.

Nine Trinity research projects have received funding from the Irish Research Council (IRC) under the ‘New Foundation’ programme announced this week.

CALLING for a united Ireland referendum without a clear plan in place for what follows would be “highly unwise”, according to an expert report.The

Irish Law Criminalizes Outdoor Confession to a Priest 23 Apr 2021 A new Irish statutory instrument aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus makes meeting with a priest outdoors for the sacrament of confession a crime, according to a law professor at Trinity College Dublin. If a priest “were to meet a parishioner for outdoor confession, they would both be committing a criminal offence,” Professor Oran Doyle wrote this week on a site publishing academic commentary about Ireland’s l...