Kennedy Justice

Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from the supreme court has given US president Donald Trump an opportunity to shift America’s highest court to the right. (...)

Neither the Referendum Commission nor the Standards in Public Office Commission will have a role overseeing social media campaigning or advertising in(...)

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (Gsoc) must apply to the High Court for transcripts relating to appearances before the Special Criminal Court (...)

The HSE has asked the High Court for orders allowing a hospital induce the birth of a child whose mother has the mental age of less than eight amid co(...)

An unemployed Cork man who held a woman down while another man raped her has been jailed for nine years. Keith Aherne (23) was convicted last March a(...)

A Cork man who told gardaí ­ he had gone to Monaghan for “a drinking session” and did not know there was half-a-tonne of fertliser in the van he was d(...)

Independent TD Maureen O’Sullivan says she stands over her letter expressing dismay at the length of time Donal Ó Coisdealbha had spent in custody. “(...)

The death on Saturday of Conservative US supreme court justice Antonin Scalia, one of the most politically influential American judges of his generati(...)

The US supreme court has temporarily blocked an appeals court ruling on same-sex marriage bans in Idaho and Nevada that would have allowed gay couple(...)

US Supreme Court justices have indicated interest in striking down a law that denies federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. (...)