Landmark ruling will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in court for EU-wide GDPR class actions

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – false – alert

The rights and liberties that we have worked so hard to gain and protect are under threat. This is the fight of our lives.

Class action will target “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) data breach in Microsoft’s advertising system, and is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across the EU

Action initiated by son of Martin Doherty, who was shot dead by loyalist gunmen at the Widow Scallan’s pub in 1994

The deadline to apply is 2pm on Friday 2 October 2026.

Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae has returned home to Kilgarvan in Co Kerry, after he was injured during an assault in Dublin yesterday.

The ICCL said in the letter that the right to freedom of expression is provided for in the Irish Constitution, as well as the European Convention of Human Rights.

The deadline to apply is 2pm on Friday 2 October 2026.

Human rights organisations express serious concerns about proposals that will significantly restrict access to Irish citizenship.

The Carlow man was facing firearms charges with two friends when he died outside a shopping centre in June 2025

A photo taken at a protest, an automated comparison with a database containing more than 600,000 faces, and a criminal investigation targeting an innocent person. We filed a complaint, and the DSB rul...

Irish Council for Civil Liberties said shortcomings in system 'present a real risk of harm to some of the most vulnerable people in our society'

FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres) will deliver a statement at the UN in Geneva on behalf of FLAC and ICCL as part of the UPR process (Universal Periodic Review).

The first-ever study of crime and security journalism in Ireland is based on interviews with journalists working in the North and South of Ireland.

A new report has found that many crime journalists in the Republic of Ireland have been questioned by Gardaí about their confidential sources, raising concerns about source protection, surveillance an...

Former High Court judge Mr Bernand Barton has passed away after a short illness. 

The wrongful conviction of Osgur Breatnach for the Sallins train robbery half a century ago has now been declared a miscarriage of justice.

Human rights

If a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane can finally examine publicly all of the collusion that plagued our society for so many years, there is hope that a real process of healing can begin

A new government Bill which would introduce AI-powered biometric tracking into Irish policing risks creating legal uncertainty, reducing transparency for the public, and weakening fundamental rights.

Civil liberties campaigners say consumers have a right to consent to their data being collected – but when opting out means paying more, do we really have a choice?

An Garda Síochána is rolling out body-worn cameras nationally without publishing the final assessment report of its pilot.