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https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/DUSQNZ4DMR5SUM4HR7KYDI7KHY.jpg?smart=true&auth=f15dfa09bd88a5658b319a294181521574a76fbe5f0d23eac70fe9aed682e232&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/DUSQNZ4DMR5SUM4HR7KYDI7KHY.jpg?smart=true&auth=f15dfa09bd88a5658b319a294181521574a76fbe5f0d23eac70fe9aed682e232&width=800&height=449 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/DUSQNZ4DMR5SUM4HR7KYDI7KHY.jpg?smart=true&auth=f15dfa09bd88a5658b319a294181521574a76fbe5f0d23eac70fe9aed682e232&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/news/crime-and-law/gerry-hutch-appears-in-court-charged-with-regency-hotel-murder-1.4686737">Gerry Hutch appears in court charged with Regency Hotel murder</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/gerry-hutch-appears-in-court-charged-with-regency-hotel-murder-1.4686737">Dubliner (58) remanded in custody after being extradited from Spain</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Conor Lally and Conor Gallagher</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-29T21:12:15Z">Wed Sept 29 2021 - 22:12</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/dromore-redress-scheme-over-clerical-abuse-unlikely-to-become-a-template-1.4686990" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Dromore redress scheme over clerical abuse unlikely to become a template" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/K4LDCCQ4I3NS736NJGGKUKIWOM.jpg?smart=true&auth=3b7292a471eb5044c808731d19d34f1496e980f0f7f585189668d7ef61e16505&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/K4LDCCQ4I3NS736NJGGKUKIWOM.jpg?smart=true&auth=3b7292a471eb5044c808731d19d34f1496e980f0f7f585189668d7ef61e16505&width=200&height=112 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/K4LDCCQ4I3NS736NJGGKUKIWOM.jpg?smart=true&auth=3b7292a471eb5044c808731d19d34f1496e980f0f7f585189668d7ef61e16505&width=400&height=224 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/K4LDCCQ4I3NS736NJGGKUKIWOM.jpg?smart=true&auth=3b7292a471eb5044c808731d19d34f1496e980f0f7f585189668d7ef61e16505&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/K4LDCCQ4I3NS736NJGGKUKIWOM.jpg?smart=true&auth=3b7292a471eb5044c808731d19d34f1496e980f0f7f585189668d7ef61e16505&width=800&height=449 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/K4LDCCQ4I3NS736NJGGKUKIWOM.jpg?smart=true&auth=3b7292a471eb5044c808731d19d34f1496e980f0f7f585189668d7ef61e16505&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/dromore-redress-scheme-over-clerical-abuse-unlikely-to-become-a-template-1.4686990">Dromore redress scheme over clerical abuse unlikely to become a template</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/dromore-redress-scheme-over-clerical-abuse-unlikely-to-become-a-template-1.4686990">Most legal actions by abuse survivors have already been dealt with</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Patsy McGarry</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-29T20:16:00Z">Wed Sept 29 2021 - 21:16</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/paddy-cosgrave-s-web-summit-sues-former-partners-over-covert-venture-fund-1.4686889" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Paddy Cosgrave’s Web Summit sues former partners over ‘covert’ venture fund" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/TFRV3YOV3FP4EXDMBEKNDG2DTY.jpg?smart=true&auth=e0fc7509f1fcedf226e88e0711f58007cfb5d8f277d1d1ef4ce3c807a11202c8&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/TFRV3YOV3FP4EXDMBEKNDG2DTY.jpg?smart=true&auth=e0fc7509f1fcedf226e88e0711f58007cfb5d8f277d1d1ef4ce3c807a11202c8&width=200&height=112 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/TFRV3YOV3FP4EXDMBEKNDG2DTY.jpg?smart=true&auth=e0fc7509f1fcedf226e88e0711f58007cfb5d8f277d1d1ef4ce3c807a11202c8&width=400&height=224 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/TFRV3YOV3FP4EXDMBEKNDG2DTY.jpg?smart=true&auth=e0fc7509f1fcedf226e88e0711f58007cfb5d8f277d1d1ef4ce3c807a11202c8&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/TFRV3YOV3FP4EXDMBEKNDG2DTY.jpg?smart=true&auth=e0fc7509f1fcedf226e88e0711f58007cfb5d8f277d1d1ef4ce3c807a11202c8&width=800&height=449 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/TFRV3YOV3FP4EXDMBEKNDG2DTY.jpg?smart=true&auth=e0fc7509f1fcedf226e88e0711f58007cfb5d8f277d1d1ef4ce3c807a11202c8&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/business/paddy-cosgrave-s-web-summit-sues-former-partners-over-covert-venture-fund-1.4686889">Paddy Cosgrave’s Web Summit sues former partners over ‘covert’ venture fund</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/paddy-cosgrave-s-web-summit-sues-former-partners-over-covert-venture-fund-1.4686889">David Kelly and Patrick Murphy say they will strongly defend allegation that they breached agreement with Web Summit</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Mark Hilliard</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-29T16:16:08Z">Wed Sept 29 2021 - 17:16</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/financial-services/insurers-pay-out-130m-to-date-on-covid-business-interruption-central-bank-1.4686725" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Insurers pay out €130m to date on Covid business interruption – Central Bank" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/FYFWMM6MDFGI4TONMPURFE5U6M.jpg?smart=true&auth=1018d32f863b7652d05c8eb5ee9da0b63d3246d8a25a51ea3b52896ed5aed455&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/FYFWMM6MDFGI4TONMPURFE5U6M.jpg?smart=true&auth=1018d32f863b7652d05c8eb5ee9da0b63d3246d8a25a51ea3b52896ed5aed455&width=200&height=112 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/FYFWMM6MDFGI4TONMPURFE5U6M.jpg?smart=true&auth=1018d32f863b7652d05c8eb5ee9da0b63d3246d8a25a51ea3b52896ed5aed455&width=400&height=224 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/FYFWMM6MDFGI4TONMPURFE5U6M.jpg?smart=true&auth=1018d32f863b7652d05c8eb5ee9da0b63d3246d8a25a51ea3b52896ed5aed455&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/FYFWMM6MDFGI4TONMPURFE5U6M.jpg?smart=true&auth=1018d32f863b7652d05c8eb5ee9da0b63d3246d8a25a51ea3b52896ed5aed455&width=800&height=449 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/FYFWMM6MDFGI4TONMPURFE5U6M.jpg?smart=true&auth=1018d32f863b7652d05c8eb5ee9da0b63d3246d8a25a51ea3b52896ed5aed455&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/business/financial-services/insurers-pay-out-130m-to-date-on-covid-business-interruption-central-bank-1.4686725">Insurers pay out €130m to date on Covid business interruption – Central Bank</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/financial-services/insurers-pay-out-130m-to-date-on-covid-business-interruption-central-bank-1.4686725">Derville Rowland says sum paid out to 4,371 policyholders, including 3,485 claims that have been fully settled</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Joe Brennan</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-29T14:12:07Z">Wed Sept 29 2021 - 15:12</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/gardai-plan-to-use-private-jet-to-extradite-gerry-hutch-this-week-1.4685944" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Gardaí plan to use private jet to extradite Gerry Hutch this week" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IUW5KT2WWZLEKKGCZKPFF2NB44.jpg?smart=true&auth=fae1c69379591cc471a9aa2ef87d76eb3e9493c2de8db93dd17f83639ba3a942&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IUW5KT2WWZLEKKGCZKPFF2NB44.jpg?smart=true&auth=fae1c69379591cc471a9aa2ef87d76eb3e9493c2de8db93dd17f83639ba3a942&width=200&height=112 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IUW5KT2WWZLEKKGCZKPFF2NB44.jpg?smart=true&auth=fae1c69379591cc471a9aa2ef87d76eb3e9493c2de8db93dd17f83639ba3a942&width=400&height=224 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IUW5KT2WWZLEKKGCZKPFF2NB44.jpg?smart=true&auth=fae1c69379591cc471a9aa2ef87d76eb3e9493c2de8db93dd17f83639ba3a942&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IUW5KT2WWZLEKKGCZKPFF2NB44.jpg?smart=true&auth=fae1c69379591cc471a9aa2ef87d76eb3e9493c2de8db93dd17f83639ba3a942&width=800&height=449 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IUW5KT2WWZLEKKGCZKPFF2NB44.jpg?smart=true&auth=fae1c69379591cc471a9aa2ef87d76eb3e9493c2de8db93dd17f83639ba3a942&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/news/crime-and-law/gardai-plan-to-use-private-jet-to-extradite-gerry-hutch-this-week-1.4685944">Gardaí plan to use private jet to extradite Gerry Hutch this week</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/gardai-plan-to-use-private-jet-to-extradite-gerry-hutch-this-week-1.4685944">Mr Hutch wanted on a charge of murder in relation to 2016 Regency Hotel attack</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Conor Gallagher</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-28T19:38:01Z">Tue Sept 28 2021 - 20:38</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/covid-restrictions-behind-expected-20-drop-in-personal-injury-claims-1.4685119" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Covid restrictions behind expected 20% drop in personal injury claims" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/G7EAZQFFWIKOS7762BLLYDGVMA.jpg?smart=true&auth=11dc031079a468485068e505d70d66f4d3689944a2dda8bbe629e7b8fab53553&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/G7EAZQFFWIKOS7762BLLYDGVMA.jpg?smart=true&auth=11dc031079a468485068e505d70d66f4d3689944a2dda8bbe629e7b8fab53553&width=200&height=112 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/G7EAZQFFWIKOS7762BLLYDGVMA.jpg?smart=true&auth=11dc031079a468485068e505d70d66f4d3689944a2dda8bbe629e7b8fab53553&width=400&height=224 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/G7EAZQFFWIKOS7762BLLYDGVMA.jpg?smart=true&auth=11dc031079a468485068e505d70d66f4d3689944a2dda8bbe629e7b8fab53553&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/G7EAZQFFWIKOS7762BLLYDGVMA.jpg?smart=true&auth=11dc031079a468485068e505d70d66f4d3689944a2dda8bbe629e7b8fab53553&width=800&height=449 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/G7EAZQFFWIKOS7762BLLYDGVMA.jpg?smart=true&auth=11dc031079a468485068e505d70d66f4d3689944a2dda8bbe629e7b8fab53553&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/news/crime-and-law/covid-restrictions-behind-expected-20-drop-in-personal-injury-claims-1.4685119">Covid restrictions behind expected 20% drop in personal injury claims</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/covid-restrictions-behind-expected-20-drop-in-personal-injury-claims-1.4685119">Hope is that declining cases will result in reduced insurance premiums for consumers</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Conor Gallagher</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-28T00:00:00Z">Tue Sept 28 2021 - 01:00</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/ireland/irish-news/campaigners-gather-in-dublin-to-protest-unfair-planning-system-1.4683141" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Campaigners gather in Dublin to protest ‘unfair’ planning system" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/GK5T4XB7R65TZ75Q2D5HXUUELQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=56d9c084fa4d57da4d04e7577907733491873b209cd0f741cb19ebb3222dc016&width=274&height=154" 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class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/news/ireland/irish-news/campaigners-gather-in-dublin-to-protest-unfair-planning-system-1.4683141">Campaigners gather in Dublin to protest ‘unfair’ planning system</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/ireland/irish-news/campaigners-gather-in-dublin-to-protest-unfair-planning-system-1.4683141">Environmental groups call for ‘overhaul’ of process to give communities greater say</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Jade Wilson</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-24T19:37:49Z">Fri Sept 24 2021 - 20:37</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet 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language rights</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Éanna Ó Caollaí</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-21T12:09:17Z">Tue Sept 21 2021 - 13:09</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/life-and-style/people/give-me-a-crash-course-in-the-kerry-babies-case-development-1.4676713" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Give me a crash course in . . . the Kerry babies case development" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" 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c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Aodhan O'Faolain</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-16T17:34:00Z">Thu Sept 16 2021 - 18:34</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/technology/whatsapp-challenges-dpc-s-225-million-fine-1.4675957" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="WhatsApp challenges DPC’s €225 million fine" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/XD6UX6CM6NGZRUTIN3SHPWLBGY.jpg?smart=true&auth=39eea168a1bc639f762a70798497c1ccff21b804806facc7428bfaa55fcc2321&width=274&height=154" 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href="/business/health-pharma/two-pharma-giants-claim-irish-based-teva-breached-its-patents-1.4669648">Action brought by Pfizer and BMSHI admitted to fast-track Commercial Court list</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Aodhan O'Faolain</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-09T15:59:29Z">Thu Sept 09 2021 - 16:59</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/technology/legal-challenge-brought-against-planning-extension-for-apple-data-centre-1.4669514" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Legal challenge brought against planning extension for Apple data centre" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 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https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/45PTHAFPZTCR7F67PJH7T76OGI.jpg?smart=true&auth=3e370e054ffabac3f605a0a9c34d79f9e552b4db91dc596bbbd3b9e3fabdc97f&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/business/technology/legal-challenge-brought-against-planning-extension-for-apple-data-centre-1.4669514">Legal challenge brought against planning extension for Apple data centre</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/technology/legal-challenge-brought-against-planning-extension-for-apple-data-centre-1.4669514">Carbon emissions targets significantly changed since permission granted, court hears</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Aodhan O'Faolain</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-09T14:23:49Z">Thu Sept 09 2021 - 15:23</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/high-court-clears-way-for-fixing-of-date-for-regency-hotel-murder-trial-1.4668477" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="High Court clears way for fixing of date for Regency Hotel murder trial" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/LNILIEA3L4JS3SXQRD4CBIJHI4.jpg?smart=true&auth=e8c45110f6255240c48ad3c2dd30a1978e1112d20de210bdc5d575bc15addee6&width=274&height=154" 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class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/high-court-clears-way-for-fixing-of-date-for-regency-hotel-murder-trial-1.4668477">High Court clears way for fixing of date for Regency Hotel murder trial</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/high-court-clears-way-for-fixing-of-date-for-regency-hotel-murder-trial-1.4668477">Former SF councillor Jonathan Dowdall charged with murder of David Byrne in 2016</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Aodhan O'Faolain</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-08T15:23:09Z">Wed Sept 08 2021 - 16:23</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/technology/wisetek-in-legal-row-with-shareholders-over-buyout-terms-1.4667493" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Wisetek in legal row with shareholders over buyout terms" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/3T23RUOL7GRL4EPI6C5DBTL6FQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=fab8c723c65e3073343b67c8a35ca4adeb3fcac9d4cfbdd1a681a27008d7243a&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/3T23RUOL7GRL4EPI6C5DBTL6FQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=fab8c723c65e3073343b67c8a35ca4adeb3fcac9d4cfbdd1a681a27008d7243a&width=200&height=112 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/3T23RUOL7GRL4EPI6C5DBTL6FQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=fab8c723c65e3073343b67c8a35ca4adeb3fcac9d4cfbdd1a681a27008d7243a&width=400&height=224 400w, 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href="/business/technology/wisetek-in-legal-row-with-shareholders-over-buyout-terms-1.4667493">Irish tech firm says US investors paid €1.39m under agreed terms; they claim they are entitled to more</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Aodhan O'Faolain</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-07T15:21:22Z">Tue Sept 07 2021 - 16:21</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/retail-and-services/sean-gallagher-consultancy-records-profits-of-103-722-in-2020-1.4666483" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Seán Gallagher consultancy records profits of €103,722 in 2020" class="c-image 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https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/U4M3ZFHQWVOI74BR5LE5W3STYQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=3f1787fb709e8a04cdea42171f521a2719efe2d683c216efd0d7c43946adeac4&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/business/retail-and-services/sean-gallagher-consultancy-records-profits-of-103-722-in-2020-1.4666483">Seán Gallagher consultancy records profits of €103,722 in 2020</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/retail-and-services/sean-gallagher-consultancy-records-profits-of-103-722-in-2020-1.4666483">Accounts say trading was not reduced by Covid-19</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Gordon Deegan</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-06T16:55:15Z">Mon Sept 06 2021 - 17:55</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/environment/public-consultation-under-way-on-proposed-overhaul-of-co-wicklow-s-n11-1.4665563" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Public consultation under way on proposed overhaul of Co Wicklow’s N11" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/FUM6BXT5W6FMB4GKLEIRDAJWPI.jpg?smart=true&auth=b0fdf6b08e4459ff929a792428ea4038aae6692c3f488e03b72c51d31f46c969&width=274&height=154" 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class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/news/environment/public-consultation-under-way-on-proposed-overhaul-of-co-wicklow-s-n11-1.4665563">Public consultation under way on proposed overhaul of Co Wicklow’s N11</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/environment/public-consultation-under-way-on-proposed-overhaul-of-co-wicklow-s-n11-1.4665563">Multimillion euro project is not about putting more cars on the road, say officials</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Mark Hilliard</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-06T00:21:26Z">Mon Sept 06 2021 - 01:21</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/economy/big-winners-in-windfall-from-whatsapp-likely-to-be-the-lawyers-1.4664527" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Big winners in windfall from WhatsApp likely to be the lawyers" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/TCM6LBIAHZHPMYBYFSCZICCIHA.jpg?smart=true&auth=cad8cb44ca61e556c67154d23e33781e124cd81d027b65f591a8c2ce7e3c770e&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/TCM6LBIAHZHPMYBYFSCZICCIHA.jpg?smart=true&auth=cad8cb44ca61e556c67154d23e33781e124cd81d027b65f591a8c2ce7e3c770e&width=200&height=112 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/TCM6LBIAHZHPMYBYFSCZICCIHA.jpg?smart=true&auth=cad8cb44ca61e556c67154d23e33781e124cd81d027b65f591a8c2ce7e3c770e&width=400&height=224 400w, 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href="/business/economy/big-winners-in-windfall-from-whatsapp-likely-to-be-the-lawyers-1.4664527">The €225m is unlikely to reach State coffers in time for the 2023 – or even the 2024 – budget</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2021-09-04T04:18:10Z">Sat Sept 04 2021 - 05:18</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/education/leaving-cert-2021-grade-inflation-could-lead-to-cao-points-increase-1.4659183" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Leaving Cert 2021: Grade inflation could lead to CAO points increase" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" 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The papers describe how in 2018, in a bid to leverage the success of its global conferences, it founded the initial venture capital Amaranthine Fund I entity with the defendants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X42WPQBBPVEONOARK4FXA77DT4","content":"“Web Summit was in a unique position to establish such a fund given its broad and well-established relationships with investors, founders, portfolio companies and other prominent figures in the technology industry,” the documents say. Given the structure of such funds, the defendants are likely to argue that the fund was never a Web Summit fund per se.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4TFVYKQQJFDVRMXU7HJEXMJ4O4","content":"However, the papers set out that from the fund’s inception the Web Summit’s capital investment, brand, connections and intellectual property would play a central role. 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We have so many protected species there that are just going to be wiped out – from pine martens, to red deer, red grouse, red squirrels and golden eagles. It’s one of the last wildernesses in Ireland and we have to protect it,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F4YKKXRK75H2PN3K5OZATX2SCQ","content":"There were “very few places where you can sit at your back door and see golden eagles” and this was one of them, she said. “It’s public land that belongs to us, the public, so it just can’t be allowed to be dug up for a multinational to profit.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILUNSTBQAVHWXLIMHP32TE3QW4","content":"Ms Sharkey said the planning system “isn’t equitable because communities can’t afford to go beyond An Bord Pleanála to appeal to the High Court.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4KE3X7YFVBJJETFZ4KMT5ZB3Q","content":"“These are sparsely populated and poor areas. 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The deadline to sue has since passed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QGIIRBD375ARZI7EL6KKZMDHHE","content":"US district judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversees Ms Giuffre’s lawsuit, has urged both sides not to dwell on “technicalities” and instead to focus on the case’s substance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SOX2I3XY5BF2DCNMWAUTGDAW5A","content":"“I can see a lot of legal fees being spent and time being expended and delay, which ultimately may not be terribly productive for anyone,” Mr Kaplan said at a September 13th hearing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2U3ZLVSG5VEWPLYUJVDZLJKDFI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Last week London's High Court said it would arrange for the prince to be served if the parties failed to work out their own arrangement and gave the prince's lawyers a week to appeal that decision.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPJA33SOEZBF3F27TSMZZSPRKY","content":"A source close to the prince’s lawyers said it was highly unlikely any challenge would be pursued now.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XUGSJ3277NE63LTVVKCJDUYVFE","content":"Ms Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges she helped recruit and groom underage girls for Epstein to abuse. 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This is completely wrong and our elected public representatives, who are elected to uphold our rights, must act immediately,\" he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LT6FQCBWBNH6NONHYPKE3SQPTM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Mac Fhlannchadha said Conradh na Gaeilge is calling on the Taoiseach and the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O'Brien, \"to stand up and to show leadership, for the rights of the Irish language community, and to ensure that the appeal from the Department of Housing is withdrawn immediately.\"","type":"text"},{"_id":"HVBUO7K4EBGZZGO7RVFLLIFDSQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Comment has been sought from the Department of Housing and the Department of the Taoiseach.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Éanna Ó Caollaí"}},"name":"Éanna Ó Caollaí"}]},"description":{"basic":"Advocacy group claims ‘explicit hostility’ within State agencies to providing language rights"},"display_date":"2021-09-21T12:09:17Z","headlines":{"basic":"Call for Taoiseach to stop challenge to Irish language ruling"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"CE33T7IUKLXNQ5NHGMMA7PHDKM","auth":{"1":"8bf52506da2c68f774f59978136e98402f84935af11e1e6b87570544ba769fc2"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/CE33T7IUKLXNQ5NHGMMA7PHDKM.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/news/ireland/irish-news/call-for-taoiseach-to-stop-challenge-to-irish-language-ruling-1.4679788","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Ireland"}}}},{"_id":"L6SJ5KP2O4PLQ3WSUUZPK7ARAU","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/life-and-style/people/give-me-a-crash-course-in-the-kerry-babies-case-development-1.4676713","content_elements":[{"_id":"M2GNPGRDB5BOVFVVTBK2ANJYOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542523},"content":"The Kerry babies case is in the news again?","type":"header"},{"_id":"JQ2UESNY2VEJLK7JCOY3YFPXKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542524},"content":"Yes. On Tuesday, gardaí exhumed from Holy Cross Cemetery in Cahersiveen the remains of ‘Baby John’, the five-day-old boy at the centre of the unsolved killing. The baby’s remains were taken to a morgue for examination before being re-interred some hours later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DYCOVMSR7ZHDFHYLQVDZ6R5Y3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542525},"content":"Why were they examining the remains?","type":"header"},{"_id":"GEGV6T4OHJFAFEHWHBC2YSJG3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542526},"content":"Supt Flor Murphy, who heads the cold case review that began in January 2018, said it “was very necessary, very important as part of this ongoing investigation”. He was hopeful the examination would “advance matters”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7KAXCAFC5C3PFFULK77XLVMEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542527},"content":"How so?","type":"header"},{"_id":"XFMVPP6R4RALFEJXY6JGQW3JNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542528},"content":"Well, Garda sources told The Irish Times during the week that although they had taken a DNA sample during a postmortem examination in 1984, it was very small and they needed a larger sample to make the most of advances in DNA technology over the past 37 years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZUDKMVDS5HGFAUHAL5FSBDL4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542529},"content":"It really was a long time ago. Remind me what happened.","type":"header"},{"_id":"7LZCDINJXVFDHKESO25QFGCE6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542530},"content":"On April 14th, 1984, Baby John was found dead on White Strand, outside Cahersiveen. The newborn had been stabbed 28 times and his neck was broken. Gardaí in Dublin were sent to investigate. On arriving, they learned that a single mother, Joanne Hayes, who lived 80km away in Abbeydorney, had been in hospital apparently after a lengthy pregnancy but there was no sign of a baby.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVKM3FC34ZF3ZGRZDLBZ7UM4AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542531},"content":"She and her family were summoned to Tralee Garda station. Graphic confessions of Ms Hayes having murdered baby John were written up by gardaí, including how she killed him with a kitchen knife and bashed his head with a bath brush.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KKWDZ3H73FB47PRIUQKGFJKQ6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542532},"content":"The confessions were all later withdrawn. Ms Hayes told gardaí she had, in fact, given birth to a baby boy – she named him Shane – who was stillborn or died days later and was buried on the family farm around the same time as the discovery of the baby on the beach.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MYC5QQTLHVBNLIL3WKJI4RCI74","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542533},"content":"Did gardaí find Shane’s remains?","type":"header"},{"_id":"RHWAJFVNB5A53A7FSNP7YVN6DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542534},"content":"Eventually, they did. Then they claimed Ms Hayes had had twins. But tests showed the two babies had different blood types.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSRWJKODCNBB5I56D52KVQWA44","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542535},"content":"So that was the end of that “lead”?","type":"header"},{"_id":"2O5TKJMGKBDYHCB6QYFF3SKBWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542536},"content":"No. In a bizarre further twist, investigators came up with a theory of “superfecundation” – that the “twins” were conceived by two different men, explaining the two different blood groups.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YY4SEFXEWNENTLWJFC5LHPZDEE","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542537},"content":"After withdrawing their statements, the Hayes family made a series of allegations against gardaí, including intimidation and inappropriate conduct. Charges against them were then withdrawn in October 1984.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ARZ3MEGLNRC5ND234GIMALSEWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542538},"content":"Wasn’t there a tribunal of inquiry at the time?","type":"header"},{"_id":"T7J6TK2N4VEP7KTGGUWKCAANZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542539},"content":"More like a medieval witch hunt, according to some. It was supposed to investigate how Ms Hayes was charged with murder and her family with concealment. What transpired was Ms Hayes, then 25, was publicly cross-examined over five days on the stand. She was asked thousands of questions, many of them about her sex life.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVA4CNNSZZEIPPG3A4KSQWIFDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542540},"content":"The tribunal mostly exonerated gardaí and found Ms Hayes was not the mother of the baby on the beach. But it made other claims against Ms Hayes and her family, which the family said were untrue, not supported by any evidence and purely speculative.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NQ4EXRCPKJDAXCGXUJOJP45PPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542541},"content":"That is horrendous.","type":"header"},{"_id":"LIOO4MGM6VEALHF2CUOK5X4UZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542542},"content":"It only took the State 35 years to officially apologise. Last year, it awarded substantial compensation to Ms Hayes and her family, but only after the family had launched legal proceedings in the High Court to declare all findings of wrongdoing made against them by the tribunal as unfounded and incorrect.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XFOAKFU37ZAWVAZ75M4IP4ED7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542543},"content":"Have Baby John’s parents ever been identified?","type":"header"},{"_id":"4OTQMZAY5NAM7KSYXIBBIFW3RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1679646542544},"content":"No. Neither the parents nor the killer of the baby have ever been identified. During the week Supt Murphy said Baby John’s mother was the “key to unlocking this mystery”. 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The Association of Judges of Ireland long complained about the lack of resources.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6UYGE74Y5AAHLBMB4ZF7FB66E","content":"The lack of a formal training course does not mean newly appointed judges have no courtroom experience. Unlike judges elsewhere in Europe, every judge has long years of service as solicitors and barristers behind them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PEI77EYVNJBZHOK7I4SEUARA2I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Nevertheless, Dr Laura Cahillane, senior law lecturer at the University of Limerick, says many judges have indicated to her in that they have felt \"thrown in at the deep end\".","type":"text"},{"_id":"COETJFBL3NAT7K6UZ3SW6FHTNQ","content":"Training needs will vary, depending on the judge and their court, she says, but could include writing judgments, ICT skills, case management, dealing with lay litigants and multiculturalism, along with “judicial wellness” advice to aid those dealing with distressing cases.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SB5H65DFFJG7BPKKAI65TP6SBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Gearty, Court of Appeal judge Brian Murray and Circuit Court judge John O'Connor all say enthusiasm for training is evident across the judiciary, with more than 70 per cent expressing a desire for it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HHRHFQKSXNHP3NB5HUA4VPTGNA","content":"“There was great enthusiasm from all court jurisdictions,” says Judge Gearty. “The most difficult problem is to get judges released from their duties as there are so few of them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPGMPXCIRA3MON3RM4WDD7EPPM","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"H2FOVIMAUNHSLHDYNVOY4BMWB4","content":"She believes past experience of a courtroom environment is no longer enough. “Training and professional development has evolved to the point where it is indefensible not to have continuing training.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GNTKHGAW6VEOVN7BMJTC7CSIXQ","content":"On appointment, all judges must agree to take part in any training directed by the president of their court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"63E4VOQZVFFWHD5EWEMOVU5MS4","content":"Gearty spends half of her year on the High Court bench hearing cases and the rest as director of studies, helped by the Judicial Council’s two full-time staff, who have many other duties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3Z3U6RCZRFLTJOI3NXTDRZRNY","content":"“We had to choose our priorities, we could not do everything. 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The same enthusiasm was shown for three judgecraft courses, just completed earlier this month, including the vulnerable witnesses course, aimed at avoiding \"retraumatisation\",and put together with help from the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and the Rape Crisis Network.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6A6GCA244JFZZETLSAE6ZNKT64","additional_properties":{},"content":"Unconscious bias","type":"header"},{"_id":"WIA5Y63SIJC6JO5QMBOTXTVU7U","content":"The second course, on unconscious bias, was developed with the help of the King’s Inns. “They gave us the scenarios and then stepped aside and we ran it, so it was judges in the room, judge-led,peer learning, acting out with actors in the room.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4YTMSUQZDNHMXHDDWOSYUBSKCI","content":"During the Covid pandemic, Gearty and other judges availed of several online judicial training courses, from locations including Paris.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YWZMZUIFGBCVPOIIT5NWOR6B7I","content":"O’Connor stresses the courses are “not about the law, it’s about how we treat people in court”. “There is now greater awareness of vulnerabilities, not just the classic ones such as mental health but also of people with educational disabilities such as dyspraxia and dyslexia.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TPIHBW4MGNHRVLNPL7OUBF6QXQ","content":"When he was appointed to the bench in 2012, there was nothing available in relation to training, unlike in the UK, “so what is happening now is a huge change”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RNNLCSD5RRGXTFDCZOX5JDJE5U","content":"“It’s not just for us, there is a realisation that, experienced as we are, we do need some assistance and that has been a huge learning curve. Judges are always very professional and we try to do our best but we lacked the resources and structure.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XMMRETGVORCOROAOE7EK4NGF4A","content":"Judges have also become more proactive in dealing with personal litigants, he says. “Most lay litigants don’t want to be in court, they certainly don’t want to be there representing themselves. 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The function of the investor courts is to decide complaints by Canadians who invest in EU member states.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FQZ5T23DEFB7PM5HZLO4SYWBM4","additional_properties":{},"content":"In his proceedings against the Government of Ireland, Ireland and the Attorney General, Mr Costello claimed the protections for Canadian investors in chapter 8 of Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (Ceta) usurp and supplant the law-making function of the legislature and the judicial competence of the Irish courts as set out in Articles 15 and 34 of the Constitution.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZ3JDQV4JRGJXL4V7OLN3N3JMA","content":"Chapter 8 provides for an investor protection and investor tribunal system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VR7C3WCS3RD4PAPUFJG3AG7H64","content":"If ratified, a code of rules will come into force under which Ireland will be bound by restrictions relating to establishment of investments by Canadian investors here.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZKXHQC2AV5GT3ASVF7GPCYCCRE","content":"Mr Costello’s concerns included there is no limit on the value of compensation which may be awarded under the investor tribunal system and neither it, nor an appellate tribunal, will be composed of judges appointed under the Constitution.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TG7XRDYAFFXLCEPDDPGPH66V4","content":"He was further concerned about the potential ratification on the Ireland’s ability to introduce regulation, particularly in the environmental sphere.","type":"text"},{"_id":"45KMPIGTOJFOXKYABK7GAJWQEI","content":"The State, he argued could be made liable for damages for loss suffered by a Canadian investor as a result of Irish environmental regulations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ULUPZFH5MBBTZLQUGL3IUGT6BU","content":"Ceta’s ratification could, Mr Costello further claimed, have a chilling effect of the State’s willingness to introduce desirable regulations, regarding the environment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HL6EIE3LERCX5AJQSGQNQVJJJM","content":"There was no mechanism under Ceta reserved for the Irish courts via appeal or judicial review to determine whether the investor tribunal/appellate tribunal established under Ceta has given due weight to the rights of Ireland, he claimed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DS6AHZU5ANHPZMRFRM7NVSW3SQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Executive power","type":"header"},{"_id":"R7CI3GUFWJGVXC3TD2SJ2HGP7U","content":"The respondents denied the disputed provisions involve a transfer of sovereignty and contend, inter alia, Ceta creates rights and obligations at the level of international law but is not part of the domestic law of the state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CUZTINW3JRG7BLGL3RKGK5FVHI","content":"They also rely on EU law. 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It also seeks declarations from the court, including those certain provisions of the 2018 Data Protection Act, are invalid and unconstitutional, and are incompatible with the State’s obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4VJBVP765ZC37J2UVZVXVT7YCY","content":"The judicial review proceedings were mentioned before Ms Justice Leonie Reynolds at Thursday’s vacation sitting of the High Court.The judge directed that the application for leave to bring the challenge be made in the presence of the respondents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XPA4TJXZUNHJXB4N5V57Y2TZ5A","content":"The respondents may wish to make submissions on whether leave should be granted in this case, the Judge said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4JASJNC45BCTBHU3BI6WZBXHWA","content":"The matter was adjourned to a date in October when the new legal term commences.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VBDUPQQ4BCWRHDMPJQCFPJSNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Heavier fine ","type":"header"},{"_id":"JE6KTT3UV5DUZHIT54ND5B3PAY","content":"As The Irish Times reported earlier this week, WhatsApp had expected a heavier fine than it received. The company’s Irish subsidiary increased provisions for liabilities to €246.2 million last year, up from €77.5 million in 2019, as it awaited a decision by the commission.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F3TYONHZDFAZ5EDAB7DDOBCSMY","content":"WhatsApp’s Irish unit estimated it would receive fines of between €245 million and €250 million, according to company accounts recently lodged in Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWA7SH5IBNDR3P3SQHSBMNOLSI","content":"Ms Dixon had initially proposed a €30 million-€50 million fine on the company, which was challenged by other regulators. WhatsApp, meanwhile, originally estimated that the penalty it would receive would be in the €35 million-€105 million range.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5FV6D27CQNH37KQDGZ4CZ4WFZA","content":"WhatsApp established an Irish subsidiary in 2017. 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People were saying we need more public transport, and not widening of the road,” the person said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MPP475HRBZA3ZBFDPP4LI3AAGI","content":"“I felt it was a shift [by planners] but I don’t know how quickly people will turn to believe them until they see the proof in the pudding” in terms of service provision. “There is a need for trust building.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGZLDVAHJJB5FCXNKKDWZMSZEY","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is a point supported by Wicklow Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore who said there is overwhelming local demand for public transport but no apparent planning for its provision. \"It needs to be part of this process,\" she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UTMHQ4IG3NEI5CKGIS4QQ4TFOI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Wildlife bridges","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZFLIDTEKOFHVBAGHKKXA33HIUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"With growing unease around carbon emission targets and a Green Party Minister for Transport in Eamon Ryan, officials behind the project appear anxious to press its sustainable credentials.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJ3275LBKBHYVIPR4TCHCOH7JY","content":"“It’s absolutely not just to put extra lanes into Dublin,” one senior official said. “That would achieve nothing worthwhile; you can’t just keep adding lanes.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6MVBK65XYBBAPKTHW45JWWYVLA","content":"A spokesman for the Minister said he noted that council officials were “investigating the possibility of advance provision of priority bus lanes” on sections of the route, but declined to comment further given planning was at such an early stage.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NQH2VFQBRFALJNXBBEEV4J2SEU","content":"Whatever the outcome, it will almost certainly require some level of compulsory land purchase. Those concerned for the Glen of the Downs section, however, can breathe easy. Faced with an almost certain public backlash, no widening of that section is being considered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YWJOOBFCHZDE3H4R5OQBW4XLKQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Yasmin Fortune, a local resident and environmentalist who is passionate about the area's history and wildlife, welcomed the lack of any such intrusion, although she supports the concept of a tunnel that might allow the Glen of the Downs to be entirely \"re-greened\" and the future of the Three Trout Stream secured.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3QUTMI5DNEALJIT7E6WWTBWHY","content":"“What they do need is wildlife bridges [along the N11] because the animals at the minute can’t get from one side of the downs to the other without getting killed,” she said. “I think development is inevitable, it just has to be sensible.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HUZXOZPQB5HULD7VS5SYY3GQUQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘The idea of what progress is has changed so much’","type":"header"},{"_id":"2TIAIASW2JB5PO55SPRFO5LMMA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Laura Grealish was 16 when she and her mother delivered a fruit cake to environmental activists who had set up camp in Wicklow's Glen of the Downs in 1997. Two years later she and 12 others, determined to prevent the felling of hundreds of ancient oak trees, would be sent to prison for their refusal to stand down the protest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QTRDEOYLVBBI5LGBNOM6JRFOL4","content":"“You used to be able to walk up and down the N11 and cross over, there would be quiet moments,” she muses of the old single-lane road near where she grew up. “It was a lot quieter back then.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FTJJFHYXG7ADJOMDTNBPKZEY4M","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"FMHQRWH36RBZLN5W4KQTJGODNE","content":"In the days before environmental awareness was the norm, the activists occupying the small Co Wicklow forest were either embraced as a novelty or dismissed as idealists.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y2X3ZMKBKNCJ7MZUMBVHU265YA","content":"Ireland’s road network was expanding alongside economic growth. The modest N11 would be stretched into a dual carriageway – 1,700 trees, about 2 per cent of the 145 acre nature reserve, would have to make way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LGPER6PKKBC7TFXTUFRGP2RWWE","content":"It became something of a three-year cause célèbre of Irish activism. Ultimately, the road was built but the campaign succeeded in raising awareness of the area. While the Glen of the Downs seems off limits to the forthcoming N11 upgrade, the overall plans bring back memories for those involved in the early camp-in.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GUE7MCAS2RGF5MTZQ5YDWA7F3U","content":"“We used to make the argument that in a number of years’ time they will probably want to widen the road again, and just doing that without taking other things into consideration when providing a long-term solution,” said Ms Grealish, who has since returned to live in the area and works in the public service.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PUT75QB55DPXEMV2V5ZBB6BT4","content":"“Now the idea of what progress is has changed so much; environmental sustainability is progress.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ANDMIEJZXJFU3PKMJ5IG6OGCQE","additional_properties":{},"content":"There was a price to pay for helping change mindsets. 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The record fine came only after she was directed by the European Data Protection Board to sharply increase her proposed sanction of up to €50 million so it too is likely to be drawn into the case. In effect, Dixon was acting for Europeans in the “one-stop-shop” GDPR investigation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7RJSJXDVDBE2TDCCE2ZCI46ATM","additional_properties":{},"content":"WhatsApp has two options: the High Court, with potential for action in the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and then the European courts; or a direct appeal to the European Court, with scope still for a further appeal to its ruling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L56D4AL2GRA53GDE3TO7TRZQA4","content":"This has all the makings of a bonanza for lawyers on all sides, if not imminently for the finance minister. 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Most students registered to sit all papers but many did not turn up on the day in question.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ASBJFXRF7VCM5N2ULYGQ4ZW6Z4","content":"A school principal lamented to me during the summer of dumping bin loads of unused exam scripts into recycling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UDIVD326J5GKTI475YS4LI5XAU","content":"The SEC estimates that the result of this process is that average grades across all subjects and levels increased by 2.6 percentage points on 2020 results which were themselves 4.4 per cent ahead of the results from the 2019 examinations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DJBK6IIULFAARJUTW6FMBJCE3E","content":"In 2020, senior sources within the third-level sector estimated that the 4.4 per cent overall increase represented a 10 per cent increase among higher-level papers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S22T2TCUBJCDHPVOZSRFBKONRY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Increases","type":"header"},{"_id":"VNQJ6DOLOBDX3CWZBKC3PH5BHE","content":"An analysis of the results at higher level in 2021 across the main subjects of Irish, English and maths bears this out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3N4NTRDV5AJ3OGUSSNIEHRFRQ","content":"Those securing a H1 have increased in English from a three-year average in 2017-2019 of 2.9 to 4.4 in 2020 and 7.6 in 2021.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PKCVI7PY3RHXNFEOHX4TNVEFU4","content":"In Irish the corresponding H1s are 5.4 in 2017-2019, 9.1 in 2020 and 11.9 in 2021. In maths the increases in H1s are 6.0 across 2017-2019, 8.6 in 2020 and 15.1 in 2021.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PUPSUUF2PZFGJNS7LJGWWQRDNA","content":"How did students do so well?","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGZBF2MFRRGRHHQHKG3YTM7VMU","content":"Again, an analysis of the SEC statistics reveals how students were in a win-win situation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YRASTBTVSVEGFLXOWAPUZNCIH4","content":"In the case of 129,190 grades (or 52.5 per cent of the grades awarded) the grade a student will see on their provisional results sheet today is the standardised one resulting from the assessed grade process and is higher than the grade they achieved in the written paper.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZBDRD24URDTPJI7RWF7FLGP6A","content":"In the case of 39,659 results, or 16.1 per cent of cases, the grade was achieved on the written paper and was higher than their standardised assessed grade in that subject.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KLLPJVQELNGATJSZKQ2YBC4DCE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Obviously, these excellent results will raise all boats in terms of students' achievements but will inevitably also increase the CAO points scores which applicants will have to achieve to secure that last coveted place in their desired courses next Tuesday afternoon.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4SAYEFAL6FHWLCKTUYT2PA753I","content":"The results from both processes have equal status and the provisional statements of results and the final certificates do not distinguish examination results from accredited grades.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NKWHYIPQL5DLXBL4YXOPBSK644","additional_properties":{},"content":"Collecting results","type":"header"},{"_id":"FOSKDQJUWJCYXHVWQ437A2UNAY","content":"Schools have always provided an important role in offering guidance and support to students on results day and many may want to collect them in-person from their school in the traditional manner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NDIXVJY5ABHPBIKX42P5ORIZEY","content":"School principals are asked to provide support to students in an appropriate way on the day, through enabling them to come to the school if they wish at a scheduled time, to meet with members of the student support team such as guidance counsellors, year heads, tutors and chaplains.","type":"text"},{"_id":"73PR2VA7PJAOXG2PJPDTHVSZKQ","content":"Students who arrange to go to the school will be required to respect physical distancing requirements and to behave in a responsible way and in line with public health advice, the school’s Covid-19 response plan and the school’s visitor policy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DQFTMHQ3XNANRAOWUW6PD4I2UQ","content":"What students cannot do, if they do attend their school, is meet with any of their subject teachers, to discuss or query the mark which was allocated in the assessed grade process.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7RIJ3BCXREEBIDSBUPWDP3MZM","content":"A student who is disappointed with their grade may feel aggrieved and want to raise the issue with a specific teacher, but the teacher is strictly forbidden under legislation relating to this process from engaging in any interactions with students, or parents for that matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UM5ERBGSRDBRIWU53VPXOUB7A","content":"Any attempt to discuss an assessed grade would be completely in breach of the regulation and could have serious consequences.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MM6YJP6AQZEXXLVR5X3ZADRSJM","content":"Students will have from 5pm on September 7th until 8pm on September 8th to make an application to view their scripts. They will have an opportunity to view their marked scripts at set times across three sessions on Saturday, September 11th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P5GKCKC5UFASNFPWQGE44P2JWI","content":"There is an appeals process to the assessed grades process. It does not involve any re-examination of the mark awarded by teachers, but purely checks for clerical errors in the transmission of data between schools and the SEC and within their internal processes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VXWKPK3SBFGRLTDMFMHK3BV44","content":"While it has long been the tradition for students to leave their schools together and congregate in local hostelries and coffee shops to celebrate their results, this type of activity could have serious public health consequences this year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRHKEMABJ5AMPMJAATW7DADR2E","content":"Following the receipt of Leaving Cert results, those students who have sought college places through the CAO application process will have to wait until 2pm on Tuesday, September 7th, to see whether they have secured the required number of points to receive an offer on one of their top college choices.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H2ALZQIUQNFIRMDNFPLJSWO2UU","content":"Many students and parents complain each year about the delay between the release of Leaving Cert results and the first round of CAO offers. 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Originally from Waterford and a graduate of the University of Limerick, he hopes to travel further afield before returning to Ireland</em>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XVVL6TMBOBCCLBTJNIYYUUFZJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"March, 2020. As world travel ground to a halt in the shadow of Covid-19, my plans to relocate to Canada were put on ice and I began to consider my next move from the comfort of my parents' house in Waterford. Months passed, the \"new normal\" gradually began to take hold and I decided, once again, to up sticks. Barcelona was warm, affordable, conveniently situated within the European Union and home to a few friends from college. Perfect.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TFHAMXENOVDOXHNIQ4MSFZJWNA","content":"A few weeks after my arrival in mid-September 2020, the Catalan government announced a fresh round of pandemic-related movement restrictions. After a reasonably liberal summer, bars, restaurants and gyms closed once again and a 10pm curfew was put in place. As Spain’s most-visited tourist hub, Barcelona is more reliant on the service industry than other areas of the country; these restrictions led to crippling waves of unemployment here.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WTP52TCYCBCD7CWUAG7JJRMQP4","type":"quote"},{"_id":"FZGBQ33VCVCKNMTU7HCHZZTZ54","content":"Despite all this, I decided I loved Barcelona within days of arriving and my mind has yet to change. The city is a charming mix of new and old, steeped in both history and cultural modernity. In the old parts of town, sand-coloured apartment buildings press close together, leaving a maze of narrow alleyways on the ground below. There is a blend of sound and smell and colour here; laughter, smoke, meals cooking, dogs barking, laundry dancing on the breeze.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJVWYRP3ZZBP5HVMYBFXVS3K24","content":"In more modern barrios, the streets widen to accommodate vehicles, and the buildings get larger and further apart. Climbing uphill out of the city centre brings you to the Carmel Bunkers, the Civil War-era anti-aircraft facility that now serves as a panoramic viewpoint. The jagged outline of La Sagrada Familia has pride of place on the skyline, towering above the neat gridwork of streets that makes up the surrounding neighbourhood. The Gaudi cathedral is the city’s best-known attraction, despite still being under construction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZXJDA5KPFVHHDHDE5ABCTT2S2A","additional_properties":{},"content":"I have no professional connection to Spain; as a freelance writer, most of my work comes from the US and I'm free to live wherever I choose. The nature of my workload changes intermittently, but my main job for the past few months has been writing news content for US political sites. I had subconsciously imagined politics on this side of the Atlantic to be, generally, less antagonistic than in the US, but the events that followed the arrest of rapper <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Has%C3%A9l\">Pablo Hasél</a> (for lyrics that allegedly glorified terrorism and insulted the Spanish monarchy) in Catalonia in February offered a new perspective.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FUAIVZWGSNHQ5GIFVQWGMU67XA","type":"quote"},{"_id":"PX7OJMDFTNA65LAZSI2CSJZTZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"As I come from Ireland, where criticism of monarchies almost seems a moral obligation, this struck me as an odd reason to throw someone in jail. 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Seven months on, a badge of burnt tarmac and melted plastic still adorns the street outside my apartment building.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VTD52LZOHZBKTHUXSRYCAAOUYA","content":"This was not the first time Barcelona had witnessed scenes like these in recent years; the growing push for Catalan independence (a cause Pablo Hasél supports) has seen several such outbreaks of unrest. There is something curiously invigorating about being in the midst of such real social upheaval, of a people so actively furious with their leadership.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G2HW4REGNBFMVPGDIGNLLUMZRI","content":"When I began writing this, I planned to remark upon the celebrations that came with the lifting of the 10pm curfew last May. Unfortunately, the dreaded Delta variant caused a massive spike in case numbers here despite climbing vaccination rates, and Catalonia residents were once again housebound at night (though only from 1 am this time around). However, bars and restaurants remains open, and a trickle of short-hop visitors can be seen milling about in the city centre. Things are looking up for Barcelona.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W6LSEG36MVHWHCEPGM2CK2PXLI","content":"Last week the Catalan government announced that it will fully revoke the curfew after a last-ditch attempt to expand the measure to Barcelona was blocked by the Catalonian high court. Social gatherings remain limited to 10 people to reduce coronavirus contagion and the capacity limit for religious and civil ceremonies will continue to be 70 per cent. The Catalan government is urging citizens to be cautious and is discouraging large get-togethers after large crowds of revellers were seen in some Barcelona neighbourhoods following the end of the curfew.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VREUQKKKA5CXHFWDOODHKM4UUY","content":"The prospect of intercontinental travel remains an attractive one for me; despite my fondness for Barcelona, I may not have much time left to spend here. 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