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When you are the ultimate judicial authority in the United States overseeing a supreme court which just controversially ruled that a US president is immune from criminal prosecution, where do you go to lay low while the dust settles?

Historical entertainer Paddy Cullivan brings you the incredible story of the mysterious death of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the founding father of Irish Republicanism, in The Murder of Wolfe Tone at the Roscommon Arts Centre on Friday, October 20.

Former Chief Justice, Frank Clarke SC described the introduction of technology in the courts during the Covid-19 pandemic as a “forced experiment” in his address to an audience of legal practitioners and students at a legal technology conference held in TUS Midlands Athlone Campus.

The Murder of Wolfe Tone comes to Galway's Town Hall Theatre on Thursday, February 2. Fittingly, it is the 225th anniversary of the 1798 rebellion and Wolfe Tone's death.

The impact of advances in technology on legal practice in Ireland will be the subject of a conference which will feature a panel of experts working in the area, at TUS (Athlone) on Tuesday, January 10.

A post-chaise was a four-wheeled, enclosed, horse-drawn carriage that was popular in the eighteenth century. The driver did not have a seat; he travelled on one of the horses. The necessary detail for the purpose of this account lies in the fact that there were windows to the front.

Picture this – imagine if this week, our attorney general and chief justice, together with our most senior and respected legal counsel, solicitors, prosecutors, and supporting officials and clerks, abandoned government buildings and the Four Courts and made their way west to Castlebar.

The Student Law Society of NUI Galway will mark the society’s 100th anniversary with a series of virtual events featuring some of the most respected legal minds in Ireland.

UCD is Ireland's first choice university among Level 8 CAO applicants. Internationally, UCD continues to rank in the top one per cent worldwide of higher education institutions. Since 2017 UCD is No 1 in Ireland for graduate employability. It is one of Europe's leading research-intensive universities and ranked No 1 in the US News & World Report's Best Global University Rankings. UCD has been chosen as University of the Year 2020 by The Sunday Times.

Chief Justice Dr Mathilda Twomey, who has recently been appointed Adjunct Professor at NUI Galway’s School of Law, has been awarded the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights. Chief Justice Twomey is one of 15 people to receive this prestigious annual award which marks Human Rights Day and recognises the efforts of all those who work endlessly to advance the causes of human rights and the rule of law.