Law

In 2016 a 16 year old Argentinian girl, Lucía Pérez, met up with two men she thought were friends, who she thought she was going to hang out with and smoke some weed. They led her to an abandoned building, brutally raped her, impaled her…

The question: who gets to call themselves Irish? The disgrace: not everyone born on this island. As our British cousins race to apply for their Irish passports to unlock the benefits of EU citizenship that their body politic seems hell-bent…

Dear Menstrutors, I don't know about you but I can hardly keep up with all the period positive news that has come out over the last month. First a period emoji, then a documentary on menstrual hygiene wins an Oscar and most recently the…

Somewhere in the Gaeltacht, a local man (whose first language is Irish) is accused of assaulting another Irish speaker with a broken bottle. What language should the trial be held in? If it is to be in Irish, is the jury a random sample of…

Can YOU handle the truth? In this case the "truth" is the fact that we have a new episode and that it's about lawyers… so yes, you probably can handle that. Solicitors. Barristers. Attorneys. Lawyers. Just what are these various job…

It’s safe to say that modern technology, in its many forms, has a profound impact on the world around us. Nearly every industry gets transformed by some manner of technology, be it big data and cloud computing, or mobile and web-based…

The Berwick fountain on Cork's Grand Parade is an iconic piece of street furniture on Leeside. The fountain was gifted to the city by (and named after) a Kildare man who died in a horrific accident 150 years ago. Walter Berwick was born…

We become so used to things that we forget to question them and they become just the way it is. 'The Reasonable Man' is a concept that has been drilled into my academic brain from the infant stages of familiarising myself with the legal…

I've been studying Law for three years. The only difference this time around is that I’m doing it in Germany, not Ireland. And although there are many things that differentiate the two countries - efficient transport systems and an almost…

At the end of January, $5.25 million was handed out to teams of scientists attempting to reach the moon. The potential launch date for these private enterprises is December 2016 and if any of them succeed it will be the first private Earth…