Jennifer Carroll

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‘I don’t think there will be any confusion over it - the decision on who are Fine Gael’s candidates for election is made in the first instance by party members locally and then signed off by the executive council,”icture Colin Keegan, Collins Dubli”. Taoiseach Leo Vardkar said. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins
Taoiseach plays down concerns over meeting to deselect Maria Bailey

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has moved to play down concerns expressed by a Fine Gael activist about the process which resulted in the deselection of sittin(...)

Special needs assistants at Mother of Consolation School, Donnycarney, Dublin. Jennifer Carroll has found it difficult to find an assistant at a preschool for her three-year-old daughter. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Carer of the Year unable to get assistant for daughter

The recipient of the Carer of the Year award for 2015 says her young daughter continues to miss out on preschool because the family cannot secure a Sp(...)

Mr Justice John Mac Menamin: told summer school there was a need for greater public discussion on the major changes that might potentially flow from the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. Photograph: Ronan Quinlan / Collins
Judicial appointments board ‘gave discretion back to politicians’

The board that advises government on the selection of judges has divested itself of its power in that process by a dramatic shift in how it interpret(...)

Eighteen per cent of High Court and Supreme Court judges interviewed for a 2004 study believed their political connections had an influence on their appointment. “It would be naive to think politics wouldn’t be a factor, but I think it’s less of a factor nowadays than it was,” says one judge.
The Supreme Court: where politics and the law meet

It may not be a word that crops up very often when Supreme Court judges convene to decide a case. In some lawyers’ shorthand, it signifies a world (...)