Seamus Woulfe
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‘Why were our children brought into a fire trap?’: Stardust families seek answers
- Social Affairs
- February 13, 2021
A tribunal of inquiry; a victim compensation tribunal; two Oireachtas-appointed reviews; countless political promises – none has brought peace to the (...)

Stardust fire inquests delayed over legal aid row
- Social Affairs
- February 13, 2021, 01:00
The opening of the Stardust fire inquests, due to begin this year, has been delayed amid a row over legal aid between the families and the Department (...)

‘Stardust took me over. It turned me into a victim too’
- People
- January 23, 2021, 06:00
After her parents died in the 1981 disaster, Lisa Lawlor became known as the ‘Stardust baby’, and became an unwitting receptacle for the grief(...)

‘Nothing is being ruled out’ in relation to tightening incoming travel rules
- Politics
- January 22, 2021, 01:00
The Government is coming under increasing pressure to introduce tougher restrictions on inward bound travellers after the State’s public health team s(...)

Right to information complicated by constitutional right to privacy of some mothers
- Crime & Law
- January 13, 2021, 18:33
Establishing the right of adopted people to information about their birth mothers is complicated by the constitutional right to privacy for those moth(...)

Miriam Lord: We've put 2020 behind us, now we can look forward to year ahead
- Politics
- January 2, 2021, 01:00
Time to take our crystal bauble down from the soon-to-be-mulched tree and take a sneak preview at what lies ahead in 2021. JANUARY – It quickly becom(...)

Do you remember this? What happened in 2020
- People
- December 27, 2020, 06:00
January 8th In the month when Brexit becomes official, the British people are faced with a new crisis: Megxit. Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markl(...)

'Irish Times' view on Judicial Appointments Commission: Minimalist plan for change
- Editorial
- December 22, 2020, 00:05
Nearly every attempt at changing the system for selecting judges has been a short-term response to an immediate political problem. The Judicial Appoi(...)

How Ireland's judges are made: a glimpse inside a closed system
- Politics
- November 28, 2020, 01:00
Imagine, within days of taking up a new job at the head of a busy bureaucracy, you are given a list of more than 50 names and told to choose one to be(...)

Varadkar says he did not instruct McEntee on Woulfe appointment
- Politics
- November 27, 2020, 20:55
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said he did not instruct Minister for Justice Helen McEntee to recommend former attorney general Séamus Woulfe for appointment t(...)