On Tuesday, 1 October 2024, Minister for Finance, Jack Chambers TD will announce Ireland's 2025 Budget. In advance of this announcement, Anthony Smyth, Andrew Feighery, Lee Squires, Julie Herlihy and Fergal McConnon...

The Central Bank of Ireland has issued a Modernised Consumer Protection Code on 24 March 2025, to take effect on 24 March 2026.

Budget 2025 was announced today by the Minister for Finance, Jack Chambers TD.

In a recent US survey, 30% of junior employees polled said they use Generative AI for work - but 70% of them haven't told their bosses!

Everybody is talking about Generative AI. Many are already using it - though they might not be aware of that! But what is it? Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can be used to generate content...

Generative AI products are trained on large databases, which may not always be accurate and in some cases may contain biases. Some AI tools are also known to "hallucinate"...

Another key risk of Generative AI for businesses concerns intellectual property rights. Generative AI tools have to trawl through huge amounts of data to be "trained."

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) inquiry into Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Meta), which commenced in April 2019 has now been concluded. The DPC announced its final

The Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (STCTA 2023) (implementing into Irish law Regulation (EU) 2019/452 establishing a framework for the screening of foreign direct investments into the Union).

On 18 March, 2025, the European Commission (the "Commission") announced its proposal for a six-month extension to the UK's data adequacy decisions.

ByrneWallace LLP Employment Partner Emmet Whelan joins CIPD Ireland as part of their recent podcast episode where they discuss Protected Disclosures legislation in Ireland...

On 7 March 2025, the Central Bank published the fiftieth edition of its AIFMD Questions & Answers (Q&A) document. The revised edition provides helpful and timely clarifications relevant to fund finance arrangements...

On Tuesday 05 November 2024, the Medical Council (the "Council") launched CAREhub.

On 9 May 2024, the Oireachtas enacted the Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Act 2024 ("the Act").

Contained within Annexes to the European Commission's Work Program for 2025, was the withdrawal of the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on adapting non-contractual...

The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) published on 18 February 2025 a proposed decision paper on Large Energy Users – connection policy (CRU/202504).

The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, received approval from the Government on 5 July 2024...

On Tuesday 4 March 2025, the Government approved the designation of an initial list of eight public bodies to act as competent authorities under the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) has published a decision paper on 26 September 2024 on the Electricity Connection Policy – Generation and System Services (ECP-GSS) (CRU/202401).

On 7 November 2024, the Loan Market Association (LMA) published Draft Provisions for Green Loans (the Green Loan Provisions).