Simon Harris

Moscow’s permanent UN Security Council seat makes UN mandate requirement problematic, ministers say

Inside Politics: Cabinet meets with Justice matters dominating the agenda

Harris will also bring memo seeking to extend measures allowing for consumption of alcohol in outdoor seating areas

Drew Harris defends decision not to move more firmly against roadblock anti-immigration protesters

Officers rarely intervene to remove or arrest far-right protesters. Does this help or hinder troublemakers?

Ministers and Garda Commissioner agree that finding accommodation an ‘absolute priority’ while Government asks Clare residents to drop barricade at asylum seeker site

Minister condemns ‘unacceptable co-ordinated attack’ in which teenager suffered concussion and extensive bruising

Simon Harris made his concluding remarks into a barrage of highly indignant roaring from across the floor

There’s no logic in our health policy approach, which gyrates from one issue or fad to another

Ministers told 125 anti-immigration protests have been held in Dublin so far this year

Nearly one in three Garda recruits not taking up their places at Garda College despite being successful in recruitment process

Minister for Justice Simon Harris twice avoids directly responding to Taoiseach’s claim there are too few gardaí to deal with anti-immigration violence

Fresh Bill uses ‘demonstration test’, a higher bar than Garda rule based on perception of hatred by victim

Growing unease among gardaí at tactics deployed for anti-immigration protests, with some fearing response to protests not firm enough

Hit-and-run victim Valerie McAllorum Ryan calls for changes to children’s sentencing laws after life-changing incident

McDowell asks “what is any gender other than those of male and female”?

Irish participation in lifelong learning lags far behind top EU performers

Researchers, paid an average of €18,500, say system unsustainable due to low pay and rising cost of living

Facility shared with Dublin City Council and Irish Rail will deliver more efficient and responsive policing, says Garda Commissioner

Minister for Justice says any time Trumps or Musk ‘have a different view to you ... is not a bad day at the office’

Minister for Justice to raise ‘extraordinarily serious’ issue with the force

Report finds courts, gardaí and Tusla are failing women and children and leaving them exposed to danger at home

The man who claimed he attended a party with Gerard Hutch may return to his home country and is free to do so, even though he is under investigation

There is ‘more than a bit of glee’ in elements of the Garda at seeing the watchdog under pressure

Simon Harris to announce 400 new prison places over the next five years in response to crisis

Senior Gsoc investigator resigned after attending party to celebrate acquittal of Dublin criminal in Regency Hotel murder trial

‘We were literally preparing to give our newborn baby a bath,’ says TD on social media

Minority opinion in favour of abolition may be awkward for Government which believes non-jury court still needed

Garda Representative Association to use annual conference to raise concerns over Gsoc investigator’s alleged links to Hutch family and party

Gsoc official had been involved in investigating suicide of Det Supt Colm Fox during previous Hutch trial

Protests at six centres on Friday amid concerns over recognition of pre-existing service after long-running dispute

The role of the Inspector of Prisons will also be expanded in a related shake-up

Sinn Féin leader issues statement at conclusion of Regency trial to reject claims made about her by prosecution key witness, former party councillor Jonathan Dowdall

Green Party believes issue of technology’s use is ‘far too complex to be dealt with by way of an amendment to an existing bill’

Initiative includes experiences of other survivors as well as frontline service providers and support agencies

The Newstalk host’s chat about ChatGPT highlights the quirks that lie beneath his undoubted store of knowledge

Party calls for separate standalone legislation for technology in opposition to Harris’ fast-track rollout plan

Members of the Oireachtas justice committee have also expressed misgivings regarding contentious development

Move is part of a drive to create other ways into third level without the pressing need to secure high points

Figures suggest an increase of people carrying knives but also improved Garda recording of items seized