Hotels are a hot topic in property development at the moment. Dublin is suffering from a huge room shortage and even with new...

Ireland is facing a clear shortage of hotel beds in the capital.   Therefore, it comes as no surprise to see regular announcements...

George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 told the tale of a land of constant conflict, an ever-present government surveillance system and...

Since 2002 in the UK all leases which are for a term of more 7 years are compulsorily registrable in the Land Registry.   With every...

While industry focus in recent months has been centred around the office and retail sectors  it is now time for industrial property...

The enactment of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2015 is best known as the Act which introduced the revised minimum...

With the explosion of Dublin Bikes and its similar counterparts all across the globe, we've noticed a decreasing demand for taxis and car...

It never ceases to amaze me how few subcontractors know their way around a contract or worse still even understand it. One of the key...

The Central Bank of Ireland recently published feedback from its consultation paper on the planned introduction of a Centralised Credit...

The Mobile World Congress is always an interesting forum to see what emerging technologies are the focus of some of our biggest tech...

We're going to see more of this: Loan acquirers exercising their strict legal rights where the selling bank would not. The circumstances...

Primary Health Properties (PHP) plans  to invest  up to €150m in Ireland this year targeting established diagnosis clinics and...

With the general election on the horizon, the housing crisis has become one of the key issues on which the election will turn. Commentary...

Would zoning more land in Dublin and its surrounding areas solve the scarcity of housing and start house building at a rate that would...

One certainty with the introduction of Adjudication in Ireland when the Construction Contracts Act 2013 is formally commenced later this...

A retailer which lost its case in the Employment Appeals Tribunal for the dismissal of an employee who sold alcohol to a 16 year old, has...

The AirBnB of office space....it was only a matter of time before it came about.  With online collaboration becoming all the more...

In October last year, Thompson Reuters announced that they had entered into collaboration with IBM to deliver cognitive technology...

Ms. Justice Iseult O’Malley ordered Michael Friel, trading as Michael Friel, Architectural Design and Surveying, to pay €278,525 to Kevin...

Future Crimes by Marc Goodman provides lots of scary statistics and is a terrifying reminder as to why we need to really consider our...

The European Commission released an Action Plan last week to "strengthen the fight against the financing of terrorism".

It centres on the...

1. If the contract is not in writing then its still covered by the Act.

2. 'Construction operations' extends to every conceivable...

It's fantastic to think about where Ireland is placed in terms of data. The data capital of Europe by all accounts. Head of Google in...

The Guardian reports that some City Law Firms are getting away with charging £1,000 per hour. Think about that for a moment.  Now if...

Interesting article by Adrian Weckler in yesterdays Irish Independent pointing out the chronic need for "Fresh Powder" in the Irish Seed...

On 25 January 2016, the Court of Appeal delivered its decision in the matter of Emerald  Isle Assurances and Investments Limited...

Elite Insurance has announced that it is to withdraw from the solicitors professional indemnity market in the UK.

Among the reasons given...

On 6 October 2015 the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) ruled in the Max Schrems case that the Safe Harbour arrangement for the...

The Construction Contracts Act 2013 will be commenced (finally) this year. That means that subcontractors who aren't getting paid will...

As the internet of things comes to our homes, property developers are going to be forced into embracing new tech opportunities.  In...

The revised apartment minimum sizes which were hurriedly introduced last December have now hit a roadblock. One could say there is an...

2015 saw the first year of upwards downwards rent reviews in Ireland but in reality has the legislation achieved what it set out to do?

A...

The hot topic of 2016 could very well be dilapidations.  Rents are raising and demand for rental properties  are definitely on...

Femke Van Den Driessche, a 19 year old Belgian cyclo-cross athlete who won  the European Cyclo-cross championships in the Women's...

Senator Fergal Quinn started the whole thing off in 2011 when he introduced a well intentioned  private members bill in the Seanad...

The January 31st deadline has passed and we still don't have certainty on what will replace safe harbour. This is a particularly big...

Similar to the whole "pre-nup" debate, nobody likes to address termination of the employment relationship when they make a new hire...