EU Directive 2014/104 (the "Directive") was introduced in 2014 to make it easier for victims of competition infringements to claim compensation before national courts in EU Member States.

On 13 October 2014, Vodafone commenced judicial review proceedings in the Irish High Court against ComReg aimed at requiring ComReg to consider the effect of the Three/O2 merger on Three’s spectrum holding.

On 3 July 2012, Ireland’s Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, signed a Commencement Order which brought into force the provisions of the Competition (Amendment) Act 2012 ("the Act").

We reported on the Irish Supreme Court’s ruling in DPP v Hegarty that an individual employee can be tried for a breach of Irish competition law even if his employer has not been convicted of an offence.

On 8 May 2012, the European Commission opened another chapter in its fight against abuses by dominant undertakings in the telecoms sector.

On 2 October 2018, Minister Heather Humphries, the Minister for Business Enterprise and Innovation, signed the Competition Act 2002 (section 27) Order 2018.

According to reports, at 10am on Friday 13 May last, up to 15 officials from the Irish Competition Authority, accompanied by a Garda Detective, conducted a 'dawn-raids on the Irish Farmers Association offices in Dublin.

The Communications Regulation Acts 2002-2011 requires ComReg to review the maximum CHF that can be charged by the emergency call answering service provider (currently BT) each year.

The Department of Communication, Energy and Natural Resources held a public consultation concerning draft Guidelines on Media Mergers.

Readers will be aware of the ongoing saga of the appropriate price control obligation for MTRs for the six Irish mobile service providers.

The long running case by the Irish Competition Authority against an Irish beef industry association (the Beef Industry Development Society (BIDS)) has finally concluded after an out of court settlement was reached.

ComReg is required to publish a strategy statement every two years setting out, inter alia, its strategic priorities for the next two years.

Non-geographic numbers are used by organisations to allow incoming calls at a fixed or reduced rate.

The Irish competition regulator has this week cleared a media merger, subject to a behavioural remedy of ‘ring-fencing'.

On the 30 May 2012, the Irish Competition Authority announced that Show Jumping Ireland had agreed to amend an alleged anticompetitive rule.

The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is running a public consultation on draft regulations including new rules for commercial arrangements between certain grocery businesses that are active in Ireland.

In our previous eZine in January 2014, we reported on ComReg’s proposed amendments to the current PRS Code of Practice 2012

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 new spectrum trading regime in Ireland has the potential to enable valuable spectrum to be used more efficiently.

On 6 April 2016, Judge Barrett of the Irish High Court ruled that the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) unlawfully seized entire email accounts during a 2015 dawn raid.