In examining the contours of the penal complex, lawyers, penologists and criminologists are often drawn to traditional ‘real crime’ (homicides, violent assaults, organised crime, sexual offences, requirements of mens rea ...

Despite the enormous social changes which have taken place in Ireland in recent decades, marriage remains a popular institution in the jurisdiction. According to the Central Statistics Office of Ireland, over 22,000 marriages ...

The Irish community is by far the largest ethnic group by migration in London when second generation is included. comprising 9.6 percent of the total and 12.2 percent of the white population (Action Group for Irish Youth, ...

Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs), which provide training and subsidised employment to the unemployed, are an important part of Ireland’s welfare state. While a good deal of existing research is concerned with the ...

An Advance care directive entitles a person to request in advance either the refusal of or consent to certain medical treatment if that person is not competent to consent or refuse at the time such refusal or consent is ...

The doctrine of adverse possession, as most people know, operates to extinguish the owner’s title to land once a squatter has been in adverse possession of it for 12 years, and allows the adverse possessor or squatter to ...

On the death of a landowner, members of his family may become entitled to the land as co-owners under his will or the rules governing intestacies. Many years may pass without anyone taking the steps necessary to administer ...

This article explores a specific example of advising for language learning utilized to support new speakers of Irish in the workplace. Advising in language learning (ALL) aims to provide a context that enables learners ...

GOAL: There has been an increasing interest in the arts in healthcare, with a suggestion that the arts and aesthetics can augment patient outcomes in stroke and other illnesses. Designing such programmes requires better ...

A renowned Irish journalist said that the heady rise and abrupt fall of Ireland’s ‘Celtic Tiger’1 economy, , made “Icarus look surprisingly boring” (O’Toole 2010, 10). In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, ...