Anti-abortion medics feel threatened and fearful in a newly intolerant Ireland

Lay majority on appointments board is a concern, says Frank Clarke

Analysis: The outgoing Chief Justice has reached the end of a remarkable career

Analysis: Ruadhán MacCormaic on what new chief justice Frank Clarke will bring to role

Chief Justice candidate has series of important judgments to his name

Members of judiciary ‘extremely disappointed’ after comments in Dáil about Whelan

Chief Justice emphasises importance of separation of powers between Oireachtas and judiciary

Varadkar claims Martin said he would not go public about Whelan

Cabinet meeting hears criticisms over nomination of former attorney general

‘Máire Whelan is no Frank Clarke, is no Adrian Hardiman,’ says Fianna Fáil leader

Leo Varadkar response to controversy over Court of Appeal role will signal political path

Internet is a concern because ‘my generation knows so little about it’

Contestants describe using strikes to highlight reproductive rights issues as ‘gesture politics’

Deadlock in Cabinet, Electric Picnic, media reporting of murder-suicide and Ian Bailey

We could all benefit from women discussing how we should be governed

The issue of audience participation

Supreme Court judge excelled with people but struggled with objects, mourners told

Judge’s priority had been the individual and ensuring system did not ‘grind him down’

Public life is poorer for the passing of the Supreme Court judge, historian and intellectual

Large queue of mourners runs from Fanagans Funeral Home down to Whitefriar Place

Supreme Court judge was colourful and polarising - but never dull, writes Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

State Papers: Hardiman said action was based on accusations of him acting ‘maliciously’

The professions of writer and lawyer share lots of similarities so it is perhaps no surprise that so many Irish lawyers venture into fiction. Sarah Gilmartin hears the evidence

They are where witty, argumentative, confident students go to earn their stripes, and a top goal each year is to make it through the rounds of the prestigious Irish Times Debate competition, now in its 55th year

Immigrants claimed department order was defective as it did not come from Minister

Bank employees succeed in Supreme Court appeal against refusal to block prosecutions

For eight years, journalist wrote her column In the Eyes of the Law for this newspaper

The variety in this richly satisfying book is evident when we note how the insights of philosophy, musicology, and literary history and criticism are germane to Joyce studies

Student leaders say that despite changing times some issues never go away

Decisions made to the benefit of Goodman group haunted his political career

Led Government’s commission of investigation into handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations in Dublin archdiocese between 1975 and 2004

Vacancy created by retirement of Mr Justice Nial Fennelly

It’s the biggest change in criminal justice procedure in 30 years – and you probably haven’t heard about it

Opinion: There was copious evidence available that the sexual abuse of children was widespread in Ireland

The passions of Justice Kevin Feeney’s life “were family, friendship, work and sport”

The Supreme Court this month ruled that Noel Callan was entitled to remission

Supreme Court judges’ salaries range from €197,000 to €252,000

Court gave judgments in some 120 cases last year compared to 64 by US supreme court

A decade after the landmark Sinnott judgment, the notion of ‘judicial activism’ still stirs debate

A four-year waiting list for appeals puts the Supreme Court under pressure and may discourage dissent