John Larkin

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Northern Ireland attorney general John Larkin who during his tenure was embroiled in different degrees of controversy. Photograph: NewRayPics
North’s Attorney General to leave post at end of June

Northern Ireland Attorney General John Larkin, QC, is to stand down at the end of this month after 10 years in the post, it was announced on Monday. (...)

Arlene Foster said the DUP would ‘take every possible legal option open to us’ to prevent the legalisation of abortion in the North. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Attempt to block abortion law change in Northern Ireland fails

An attempt to thwart the liberalisation of abortion law in Northern Ireland fell at the first hurdle on Monday when the Northern Assembly, sitting for(...)

The Dalkey second World War ‘Éire’ sign renovated by Dalkey Tidy Towns. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd
The second World War ‘Éire’ sign rescued from a Dublin cliffside

At Hawk Cliff in Dalkey, surrounded by prime real estate on one of south Co Dublin’s nicest coasts, it’s hiding in plain view. Just duck off Vico Road(...)

Locked gates are seen at Stormont in Belfast. Stormont civil servants have been working under a cloud of uncertainty over the extent of their decision making powers in the absence of elected ministers for two years. Photograph: PA
Belfast court should deal with uncertainty over powers of NI civil servants

The Supreme Court has decided that legal uncertainties around the powers of Northern Ireland civil servants amid the Stormont impasse should be dealt (...)

A composite image featuring Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding, who were acquitted of rape.
Juror who posted comments about rugby rape trial avoids prosecution

A juror who made online comments about the rape trial involving former Ireland rugby internationals Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding will not face char(...)

Laura Lacole outside the Court of Appeal in Belfast after a ruling on humnanist unions. Photograph: David Young/PA Wire.
Couple fail to secure law change for NI humanist weddings

Humanists have welcomed a Belfast Appeal Court’s ruling as paving the way for legally recognised marriages in Northern Ireland, despite losing an acti(...)

A file image showing the coffin of Aidan McAnespie being carried through the British army checkpoint where he was shot dead. Photograph: Pacemaker
Ex-British soldier to be prosecuted for Aidan McAnespie killing

A former British army soldier is to be prosecuted for the February 1988 killing of Co Tyrone man Aidan McAnespie. Northern Ireland’s Public Prosectio(...)

FHenry Edmond Kane and partner Christopher Patrick Flanagan outside Belfast City Hall after their civil partnership ceremony. File photograph: Paul Faith/PA Wire
Landmark ruling on gay marriage in Northern Ireland due

Judgment is due later on Thursday in two landmark legal challenges against Northern Ireland’s ban on gay marriage. Mr Justice O’Hara will rule on two(...)

Model Laura Lacole and footballer Eunan O’Kane outside the High Court in Belfast where a landmark legal case by the pair to secure official recognition of their humanist wedding is due to be heard. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Recognise humanist marriage, say model and soccer player

A model and an international footballer seeking legal recognition of their humanist wedding are being denied rights afforded to religious couples, a c(...)

Sinn Féin’s new Northern leader Michelle O’Neill with the party’s president Gerry Adams: Last Saturday, Mr Adams told a Sinn Féin conference that Brexit is a “hostile action” that would “destroy the Good Friday Agreement”. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Some in Northern Ireland still want a Brexit problem

Pro-Remain Northern Ireland has just had all its legal fears about Brexit put to rest. So why the strange lack of jubilation? There should at least be(...)

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