I've written before on the topic of online libel, so my interest was piqued by word of mass suspensions from private girls' school Alexandra College for online bullying. There are two stories on the topic in today's Independent (registration required, but bugmenot may be able to help you out in that regard). The bullying took the form of comments on the hateboard site, and the sheer venom has to

The Freedom Institute have never met a large commercial organisation they didn't like. But sometimes they seem to have a particular affinity for one- so much so that they can almost predict what it is going to do next. Shell Ireland E P Ltd had a touch of bother with their planned gas pipeline through Rossport earlier in the year. I refer you to A. L. Waller on tuppenceworth.ie for a roundup of

New tuppenceworth.ie contributor A.L. Waller gives us a detailed roundup of where the parties stand in the Rossport five case. Shell, the five jailed men and the Minister for Communications Marine and Natural Resources are all dancing around each other in Mayo and the courts. At stake is an entire gas field and, some of the parties fear, local's lives. If you haven't been following the story so

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A message went out this week to members of the Law Library (barristers to the likes of you and I) for them to collect their security cards, as the Courts Service was intending to implement their grand plan of access restriction for the Four Courts buildings. Then the next day another message was passed on from the Courts Service not to come and get the cards after all. I'm guessing somebody

Of great value when having a row with a huge organisation which claims it can do anything it likes because you signed up to an agreement with it. S.I. No. 27/1995: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (UNFAIR TERMS IN CONSUMER CONTRACTS) REGULATIONS, 1995 to give it its full name, has a handy easy-to-read guide at the back in Schedule 3, telling you the kind of contract term which a consumer isn't bound by if

Having spoken to the OPW, I've been told that they intend to consider the objections made previously under Part 9 of Statutory Instrument 600/2001. I'll come back and report if I find anything of interest in this legislation.

Marcus Glynn, in the first of a series of articles from around Europe gives us the backpacker's view of Amsterdam. We'll have more from him in the weeks to come, as internet cafes allow.

Further to my post and letter of 3rd July I have now delivered a follow up letter, requesting further information from Minister Dempsey, also under Council Directive 2003/4/EC. The full text of this second letter is available on Tuppenceworth.ie.

As I waited for a bus on Amiens St. this evening, I heard sirens and, a few seconds later, saw police motorcycle outriders flank a green Army Bomb Disposal Unit trunk on it's way south. My first thought was "probably just a false alarm, people are a bit jumpy after London". In the second or so before this thought sufaced though, I felt a sickening chill run through me, a feeling that something

The Web is slowing down. I've only seen it do this a few times. And the most exteme time was as everyone tried to get news of what was happening in New York. At the moment, it isn't clear what kind of bus/tube explosion/power outage London suffered. But with the Underground completely shut down for the first time ever and reports of witnesses seeing limbs lying around, it doesn't sound