Michael McDowell

Barrister recently acted for State in opposing Ryanair challenge to Covid travel advice

Unless the Chinese government is annoyed with you, you are not really standing up for human rights there

McDowell describes Ó Fearghaíl’s 2018 letter to Oireachtas members as ‘deeply unfortunate’ and ‘regrettable’

Unachievable targets on renewable energy erode democratic trust and cohesion

Senator rejects criticism of citizenship constitutional amendment he championed

Judge Neilan sat mainly in the midland counties

Minister says there is ‘a lot at stake’ given potential ‘carryover’ to EU-UK trade deal

Fianna Fáil was hoping no one would mention the War of the Buttons two years later

Unintended consequences can cancel out positive effects of well-meaning initiatives

The outgoing chief justice was the first member of his family to go to university

Hot-headed and untrustworthy, London now behaves as it used to regard the Irish

Current local property tax arrangements raise many issues to do with tax equity

We face a future of friction between the civilisation equivalents of tectonic plates

One-time party loyalist and then PD leader obliged FF to shelve ‘core value’: no coalition

The party he founded helped to shape the liberal Ireland we know today through support for family planning and divorce

‘The big change is the numbers of men who’d be willing to murder someone for money. Young fellas see it as a badge of honour to kill someone’