The European Commission takes a dim view of cartels, price-fixing and anti-competitive practices, but it does make exceptions for certain types of agreements made between undertakings operating at different levels of the supply chain. Marco Hickey and Aoife Nic Lochlainn explain.

In March 2009, TV3, a private television broadcaster in Ireland, complained to the Irish Competition Authority (the "Authority") that RTÉ, the State-owned television and radio broadcaster in Ireland, was engaging in anticompetitive behaviour.

The long-awaited Competition and Consumer Protection Bill was finally published on 31 March 2014.

Richard Ryan and Patrick Horan recently prepared a handy reference guide on Irish merger control rules for the Irish chapter of the Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide on Merger Control.

At an M&A Strategies event at the College Green Hotel, Dublin this morning to launch William Fry's M&A Review 2025, attendees heard from Irish entrepreneur Denis O'Brien...

On 2 October 2018, the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted to update the rules on audiovisual media services, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, to apply the rules to both traditional broadcasters ...

ComReg published two decisions on its assessment of competition in the wholesale physical infrastructure access (PIA) market and wholesale broadband markets, ...

Following the publication of Regulation (EU) 2018/302 (the "Regulation") in February 2018, new rules to prevent geo-blocking will apply throughout the EU from Monday, 3 December 2018.

Back in July, the talented social media team at Paddy Power tweeted ‘Hot on the heels of the Ladbrokes/Coral merger...

The European Union has reached a political agreement to amend the AI Act, introducing targeted changes aimed at simplifying compliance requirements for businesses while maintaining protective standards.

Businesses often use agents or distributors to sell their goods or services especially when an intermediary has a presence in a certain market or location or possesses specialist knowledge.

The Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (the "Act") will establish a new FDI screening regime in Ireland. The Act was signed into law by the Minister for Enterprise...

Data plays a huge role in many organisations' business models, so data processing issues are increasingly arising in the context of competition law investigations.

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission ("CCPC") recently issued preliminary findings to seven parties alleged to have been engaged in anti-competitive cooperation in the...

The Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (the "Department") has launched a public consultation on proposed changes to Irish competition and consumer law.

In an important decision delivered on 29 May 2019, the Supreme Court affirmed decisions of the Court of Appeal and the High Court, in the case of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council v West Wood Club Limited [2019] IESC 43

On 20 March 2026, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (“CCPC”) called in for its merger review the acquisition of TouchStore Limited (“TouchStore”), a Limerick-based developer and provider of dispensing and retail software to the pharmacy sector, by the Irish healthcare services provider, Uniphar plc (“Uniphar”).