Minister of State with Responsibility for Mental Health Mary Butler has denied that seclusion is being used as a substitute for care.

His mother said her heart is broken thinking of him 'walking around in that room with nothing only the four walls to look at'

More than five years after a psychiatric patient died in Cloverhill Prison, his family says a key report remains unreleased.

The family of a brain-injured man who spent almost five years locked on his own in small rooms in uninterrupted seclusion has spoken out about what they describe as the "absolutely dreadful" condition...

RTÉ Investigates rapid rise in waiting list for the Central Mental Hospital  amid psychiatric care crisis in Ireland’s prisons   – Highest figures on record of people deemed sick enough to require tre...

A rapid rise in numbers of acutely psychotic people in prison is deepening a crisis in psychiatric care, RTÉ Investigates finds.

Dr Rebecca Watterson of Ulster University has published an interesting PhD thesis on Psychosurgery in the United Kingdom: 1940-1986. In the introduction, Watterson identifies the absence of a compr…

Workplace Relations Commission upholds complaint against company alleging disability discrimination

ICCL has written to the Seanad ahead of today's debate on the Mental Health Bill 2024.

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The horrific child sex abuse material produced every day by Grok is already banned under Irish law. The real test is if we are ready to enforce that law against large tech companies

Minister of State for Mental Health said ‘it’s simply unacceptable that there would be issues over incontinence wear’

Are the recent deadly attacks lawful under international and US domestic law? Join Rick Lorenz and Mike Becker (School of Law, TCD) as they discuss this on Tuesday 13 January 2026 at 13.00 in the Trin...

The Conference will bring together access to justice stakeholders and experts to respond to the Review of the Civil Legal Aid Scheme and to reflect on how we can work to achieve meaningful reform - 12...

Ireland’s new Central Mental Hospital (CMH) is still grappling with serious safety and governance problems more than a year after an inspection found widespread regulatory failures.

On 24 November 2025, Conservative MP for Romford, Andrew Rossindell, asked the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care “how many patients received NHS electroshock therapy in every year…

The Workplace Relations Commission upheld a complaint by Carlos Manuel Garcia da Silva that the returning officer had breached the Equal Status Act 2000 by discriminating against him on grounds of his...

Believe it or not, Industrial Tribunals (as they were then called) were supposed never to have lawyers in them. The idea was there would be quick and simple resolution of workplace disputes on the bas...

Workplace Relations Commission heard allegations of the removal of kit from part-time retained firefighter Cian Donohoe

The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like a clear defeat for OpenAI: the court found copyright infringement in the model and in the outputs, granted injunctive relief, ordered disclosure, and paved the way for damages to be decided at a later date.

Book Review: János Fiala-Butoria, Implementing the Right to Decide under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Disabilities (Bloomsbury, 2025, 167 pp, hardback / ebook, £81.00 / £64.80) I should start this review with a confession. I asked to be provided with this book for review out of a slight sense of duty, so as to keep myself abreast of the literature in this area.