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4 unusual facts about Irish law


Coolaney

Coolaney also features an ancient earthen mound called the fairy fort in the new development of Fort Haven, where by local folklore fairies are reported to have lived in ancient times, and development is not allowed there by Irish law.

Eugene O'Curry

His voluminous transcripts, notably eight huge volumes of ancient Irish law, testify to his unremitting industry.

Liability for Defective Products Act 1991

The Liability for Defective Products Act 1991 is an Act of the Oireachtas that augmented Irish law on product liability formerly based solely on negligence.

Product liability in the Republic of Ireland

Irish law on product liability was for most of its history based solely on negligence.


UCD Law review

The review is not limited to the discussion of points of Irish law, but has published articles on a wide variety of legal issues.


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Binchy

D. A. Binchy (1899–1989), scholar of linguistics and early Irish law, ambassador

Digital Rights Ireland

DRI expressed concern, noting that there is no Irish equivalent of the Wilson Doctrine in Irish law.

Early Irish law

Early Irish law consisted of the accumulated decisions of the Brehons, or judges, guided entirely by an oral tradition.

Peter Fend

The practice of basin mapping has been continued with bays, relying on an Irish law from 1959 defining "hydrometric areas" as any drainage basin for a bay including all bay waters extending out six miles beyond the outermost points of the bay.

Thomas Chase

As Lord Chancellor he is mainly remembered for his petition to the Privy Council that Irish law students seeking admission to the Inns of Court in London should receive equal treatment with their English colleagues, to which the Council returned a favourable response.

Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism

On 9 July 2012, High Court judge Mary Laffoy decided that the ESM treaty violated neither EU nor Irish law.

UKSC

Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the supreme court in all matters under English law, Northern Irish law and Scottish civil law