The first half of 2025 has seen significant developments in the landscape of collective redress in Ireland, following the commencement of the Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests...

Recent enforcement action conducted by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission ("CCPC") and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland ("FSAI") provides an insight into the dynamic future of unannounced...

On 15 September 2016, the European Commission (the "Commission") published its Preliminary Report arising from its e-commerce sector inquiry (the "Report").

The Central Bank's Annual Performance Statement 2022-2023, published this week in conjunction with its Annual Report 2022, does not contain any surprises as regards the Central Bank's...

Following on from the commencement of the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2015 in July last year the Central Bank of Ireland has now published details of its Authorisation Requirements...

On 26 April 2021, the Government published the Legislative Programme for Summer 2021. The programme contains a number of pieces of legislation pertaining to financial services, some of which include:

On 5 March 2026, the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) published a Discussion Paper (DP12) (PDF 1.4 MB) examining the use of DLT and tokenisation within Irish and European financial services, with a particular focus on investment funds, including money market funds and exchange-traded funds.

The Matheson Spring Horizon Tracker has just been distributed to our clients this week with an 'as of' date of 10 March 2024.

The European Union's payment services regulatory framework is undergoing significant modernization through PSD3 and the Payment Services Regulation. Final compromise texts have been published...

European rules on the tagging of bovine animals and on voluntary labelling of beef products are set to change in the near future.

The Plaintiff in this case sued for negligence and product liability against DePuy International Limited for defective product and device failure.

The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has published its final report into differential pricing in the home and motor insurance markets in Ireland.

Speaking at a recent workshop, Deputy Governor Colm Kincaid emphasised that the CPC review was shaped by open engagement and that this collaborative approach will continue as regulated firms...

noyb – European Center for Digital Rights ("noyb") has become the second organisation to be designated as a qualified entity ("QE") by the Minister for Enterprise,

Manufacturers of products will be interested in two recent court decisions, one from the Irish High Court and one from the English Court of Appeal.

While most provisions of CICA were commenced in phases during 2020 and 2021 (see our earlier briefings on CICA commencement here and here), section 18(4) remained uncommenced and was subsequently...

ComReg is consulting until 31 January 2025 on its latest review within the wholesale dedicated capacity market.

If you have a business that sells goods or services to consumers then you should know about the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive.

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (the "CCPC") recently published on its website details of a merger notification it received on 3rd March 2025...

On 28 April 2026, the Government approved landmark amendments to the Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2025 to put a statutory “Right to Be Forgotten” for cancer survivors into Irish law.