Seamus Woulfe

Irish Times view on Katherine Zappone’s appointment as UN special envoy

Episode provides an unflattering insight into opaque decision-making processes

The Irish Times view on the Judicial Council: getting there

New guidelines on judges’ conduct and discipline cannot come soon enough

Stardust families’ rights breached by ‘unlawful’ failure to provide legal aid

Solicitor will seek judicial review if inquest delays over funding not resolved in coming weeks

Advisory committee to help with appointment of chief justice

Helen McEntee proposal will assist in selecting successor for Frank Clarke

‘We really need to be able to deliver the entire legal system online’

Outgoing director general of the Law Society, Ken Murphy, says courts system needs ‘massive investment’ to fund a required transformation

‘Why were our children brought into a fire trap?’: Stardust families seek answers

Families of 48 people killed in nightclub fire 40 years ago have high hopes for new inquests

Stardust fire inquests delayed over legal aid row

Department has not released any funding, solicitor for bereaved families says

‘Stardust took me over. It turned me into a victim too’

After her parents died in the 1981 fire, Lisa Lawlor became known as the ‘Stardust baby’

‘Nothing is being ruled out’ in relation to tightening incoming travel rules

Introduction of mandatory quarantine would likely survive constitutional challenge

Right to information complicated by constitutional right to privacy of some mothers

Woulfe warned Zappone referendum needed for unrestricted access to birth information

Miriam Lord: We've put 2020 behind us, now we can look forward to year ahead

In May Labour Party leader Alan Kelly explodes during Leaders’ Questions. ‘It’s what he would have wanted,’ says a constituency colleague

Do you remember this? What happened in 2020

2020 in review: Megxit, Weinstein, missing paddleboarders, Black Lives Matter: it wasn’t all Covid-19

'Irish Times' view on Judicial Appointments Commission: Minimalist plan for change

New rules on transparency or accountability for politicians involved in the process are entirely absent

How Ireland's judges are made: a glimpse inside a closed system

The unorthodox process for choosing Séamus Woulfe has shone a light on a defective system

Varadkar says he did not instruct McEntee on Woulfe appointment

Minister for Justice’s recollection on rolling controversy ‘similar to mine’, claims Tánaiste

Fine Gael’s rising star Helen McEntee faces most serious crisis of her career

Minister for Justice is a skilled politician, but questions remain over Woulfe appointment

Miriam Lord: The Dáil's answer to John Wayne overcooks the ham slice, by slice, by slice

Kelly vows to get justice – or at least the Minister for Justice – into the Dáil

The Irish Times view on judicial appointments: serious questions for Helen McEntee

Micheál Martin’s claim that Dáil questioning on judicial appointments may breach the separation of powers is baseless

Miriam Lord: Unity and common purpose in spades but not for Covid fight

Taoiseach under pressure to bring on his Minister for Justice to answer questions

Opposition withdraw from Dáil business committee as McEntee row deepens

TDs not satisfied with Minister for Justice’s refusal of full Q&A session over Woulfe appointment

Taoiseach refuses to bow to pressure for McEntee to address Dáil on Woulfe

Uproar in House after 90 minute row and three votes over questions on judge’s appointment

Fintan O’Toole: Our Government should be a fox. It is actually a snake

In a fast world, our slow government gradually digests issues it swallowed years ago

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