Mary Carolan

3 days ago | irishtimes.com | Mary Carolan

The authors of a controversial academic paper that claimed Irish judges use Wikipedia as a source for their rulings have published a new paper disputing suggestions that their research is flawed. The original paper was published in 2022 and was criticised in a subsequent study published in May 2023, co-authored by High Court judge Mr Justice Richard Humphreys, which said citations in judgments are driven mainly by legal submissions and maintained there was no “Wikipedia effect”.

3 days ago | irishtimes.com | Mary Carolan

A man who allegedly inflicted “extensive and horrendous” bruising on his wife has had a temporary barring order continued against him. The woman told Dublin District Family Court she had fallen asleep in the afternoon next to their baby and the man woke her by beating her head, grabbing her hair and shaking her. The man’s mother lives with them and, earlier that same day, when the woman had twice asked if she was hungry, the mother had said she was not.

4 days ago | irishtimes.com | Mary Carolan

“It was really a feeling of the need for fairness, not to have a situation of one lot of people rolling in money and running everything, and other people crawling along and trying to manage the best they could.”Catherine McGuinness is explaining a lifetime dedication to public service in Ireland, whether as a politician, judge, or holder of many roles including chair of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland. She is comfortable with being described as a patriot.

6 days ago | irishtimes.com | Mary Carolan

A man who denies murdering his wife told gardaí her personality changed, including in threatening to leave him, about five years before her disappearance in 2017. Richard Satchwell said his wife Tina’s personality changed following the death of her brother by suicide in 2012. He said she would say: “I’ll f**king leave you, I f**king hate you, I’ll f**king leave you” and then she would apologise. That made him feel “not good, miserable”, he told gardaí in a recorded interview on October 10th 2023.

6 days ago | irishtimes.com | Mary Carolan

Former MEP and TD Clare Daly has initiated legal proceedings alleging she was defamed in a newspaper article published in the weeks before last year’s European Parliament elections. Ms Daly is suing over a Sunday Times story regarding her alleged links to a Lithuanian diplomat, Algirdas Paleckis, who was prosecuted by the Lithuanian security services for passing information to Russia.