1916: Rebellion in Ireland. 2016: Diversity and Equality in Ireland? Join us for dinner at King’s Inns to mark the beginning of a new centenary, not to mention, a new political landscape.
We will bring together leading figures in law, politics, human rights, media and business to start a new conversation about diversity in Ireland’s future.
It is probably an odd thing to say but one of my stand–out memories from the four years I spent studying in King’s Inns is all the coffee breaks we had. That’s not to say the lectures and the class work weren’t interesting. They were. In fact, it was often the intensity and focus of those same lectures that made me look forward to the breaks so much.
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I arrived in the King’s Inns in October 1991. I had never been in the building before and was directed downstairs to a room for my first lecture on practice and procedure. I was early and took the nearest available seat beside a woman I did not know.
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MY FOUR years at King’s Inns have served me and the constituents and public I represent very well across my time in the Seanad and now in Dáil Éireann. Never more so than in the past months when, as a member of the Banking Inquiry team, I have been tasked, with others, with finding the most salient points in some 500,000 documents.
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“Congrats! You’re the Auditor” was the text message. In a long campaign, with five other candidates, I had already accepted defeat and gone to the gym. I was in shock when I heard the news. I ran up several flights of stairs to the Benchers’ Room where I was greeted by a round of applause and many kind congratulations from other candidates, staff, and students.
Read MoreOn Thursday, 5 November 2015 (the evening before Dublin International Arbitration Day 2015), Arbitration Ireland will host a seminar directed towards young practitioners in the field of international arbitration. Chaired by Audley Sheppard QC (Clifford Chance, London), the seminar will comprise three sessions with speakers from across Europe.
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Today we welcomed the 2015–2016 Barrister–at–Law class to King’s Inns and had a lively time as we all worked through the induction process together. The BL class were addressed this morning by Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan and Ms Sara Moorhead SC who both spoke about the life in the law for which this professional course is a preparation.
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On Wednesday, February 18th, our 185th Auditor of the King’s Inns Law Students’ Debating Society of Ireland (LSDSI), Hugh McDowell, addressed the audience for his Inaugural Address. This year’s Address was on a historical theme: ‘King’s Inns at the Crossroads 1916–1926’.
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