Alan Dukes

Mr Justice Liam Hamilton, president of the High Court in 1986, told the then government he needed 12 staff immediately if the High Court was “to fulf(...)

A request by minister for justice Alan Dukes to increase the number of staff in the State’s prisons by 352 to help alleviate a worsening overcrowding (...)

There was a series of tense letters between the attorney general and the minister for justice in late 1986 over the release of the film censor’s file(...)

Anyone who took part in anti-austerity campaigning has been ruled out as a potential juror in the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán Fitzp(...)

The one question Micheál Martin was not asked during a long doorstep interview at the Fianna Fáil think-in in Carlow was about his mojo. Unlike Enda (...)

Taoiseach Enda Kenny was among the mourners at the funeral on Monday of Vera Cosgrave, wife of Liam Cosgrave, who was taoiseach from 1973 until 1977. (...)

‘I remember Mrs Thatcher saying the north of Ireland ‘was as British as Finchley’. Well, we proved that it wasn’t.” Peter Barry, interviewed last Nove(...)

Peter Barry, who died on Friday, aged 88, had a long career in politics but will be chiefly remembered for his contribution to the Anglo-Irish Agreeme(...)

Saturday mornings in the Cork city centre grocery store owned by former Fine Gael tánaiste and minister for foreign affairs, Peter Barry, who died on (...)

Former Fine Gael deputy leader, tánaiste and minister for foreign affairs Peter Barry has died aged 88. Taoieach Enda Kenny said Barry died peacefull(...)