Donal O Donnell
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Government may have to get involved in removal of judge from Supreme Court
- Crime & Law
- November 9, 2020, 22:12
The time may be coming for politicians to get involved in the removal of Mr Justice Séamus Woulfe from the Supreme Court. After the publication on M(...)

Supreme Court quashes Government’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases
- Supreme Court
- July 31, 2020, 10:21
The Supreme Court has overturned the Government’s “excessively vague and aspirational” plan to combat climate change. A seven- judge court ruled the(...)

Supreme Court to rule later on ‘important and difficult’ climate case
- Supreme Court
- June 23, 2020, 16:25
A seven-judge Supreme Court will give judgment on a later date on an appeal concerning the adequacy of a national plan to reduce rising greenhouse gas(...)

The Irish Times Debate at 60: How changing topics reflected the ages
- Education
- February 22, 2020, 06:00
1960 “That this house regrets the divergence of the sciences from the humanities in the modern university.” Team winner: Charles Lysaght and Aidan B(...)

Donal Barrington saw Constitution as ‘living document,’ funeral hears
- Crime & Law
- January 6, 2018, 15:27
The former Supreme Court judge, Donal Barrington, saw the Constitition as a living, breathing document that respected the human rights of all, his fun(...)

The Susan Denham way: low-key, principled and effective
- Crime & Law
- July 29, 2017, 01:00
When, in December 1992, Susan Denham became the first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court, it was a culture shock for her and for the instituti(...)

Judge with radical edge may take Supreme Court in new direction
- Crime & Law
- July 26, 2017, 20:30
Most young barristers have to wait years for a meaty case to arrive on their desk. Frank Clarke was qualified less than a year when one of the biggest(...)

Frank Clarke was only name to go to Cabinet
- Politics
- July 26, 2017, 14:42
The incoming chief justice Frank Clarke was nominated after pre-Cabinet discussions between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Minister for Justice Charlie Flana(...)

Donal O’Donnell: Intellectual heavyweight and innovator
- Crime & Law
- July 26, 2017, 05:00
The second most senior member of the current Supreme Court, after Chief Justice Susan Denham, Donal O’Donnell was regarded as the leading constitution(...)

The country’s most senior judge has rebuked Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin over Dáil comments about former attorney gene(...)