Rosanna Cooney
@rosannacooneyCoinbase’s Irish staff in line for $45m of share options
Cryptocurrency exchange will go public on Nasdaq next week after the US firm’s Irish arm granted 105,510 share options to staff in recent years
Bank of Ireland move allows asylum seekers to open accounts
From next month, the bank will become the first in the country to accept state ID documents from people who want to open accounts
The Sunday Interview: Sinéad Gibney, chief commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission
The former Dáil candidate for the Social Democrats dropped out of last year’s general election campaign to become take up the top role at the organisation
O’Doherty and Waters to dispute costs in their case against lockdown
The High Court awarded more than €100,000 legal costs against the activists after their failed challenge to the state over the constitutionality of Covid-19 laws
Bam Ireland takes €20m High Court action against National Children’s Hospital board
The construction company, which is the main contractor for the project, is going to court following an award of €20 million being made to it by an independent conciliator which the board has rejected
33 per cent increase in complaints made about solicitors and barristers
More than 805 complaints received by Legal Services Regulatory Authority in past six months with over half alleging misconduct
Leading lawyer hits out at ‘lack of diversity in the Irish judiciary’
International criminal justice figure Fergal Gaynor says the outdated system of devilling excludes all but the wealthy from practice of the law
The Profile: Will Shu - A failure to Deliveroo
The founder of food delivery service Deliveroo presided over a disastrous flotation last week, despite the help of British chancellor Rishi Sunak
Press Up hopes to use fast-track commercial court in suits against insurer
The cases follow the landmark High Court ruling which found that four pub owners are entitled to be compensated by insurer FBD for the disruption their businesses suffered due to restrictions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic
A token offering: Why the $2.9m sale of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet is only the start of NFTs
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, and the profits made from them, have caused a stir in the arts world. But now the worlds of sport, entertainment and beyond are sitting up and taking notice
Bono whiskey firm brands casks with blockchain tokens
The €50 million Monasterevin distillery will be the first enterprise in Ireland to use the technology to mark ownership of product
The Profile: John and Patrick Collison, founders of Stripe
The Tipperary tech prodigies have seen their payments platform balloon to $95 billion in value. Now they plan to create 1,000 high-quality jobs in Ireland
The profile: Alan Rusbridger
Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger’s role on Ireland’s Future of Media Commission has been called into question because he published an article in which Roy Greenslade, an admitted supporter of the IRA’s armed struggle, questioned the credibility of Máiría Cahill after she went public with allegations that she had been raped by a senior IRA figure when she was 16
Rusbridger ‘knew of Greenslade’s IRA sympathies’, say former Guardian staffers
Calls have intensified for the removal of Alan Rusbridger from the state media commission after controversy over a column about Máiría Cahill
Percentage of female partners in Irish law firms rises
Women now make up 35% of partners in country’s firms, up from 33% in 2018
First legal actions taken by Mother and Baby homes survivors against state filed with High Court
In court filings seen by the Business Post, the plaintiffs are claiming damages for personal injuries, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional suffering — and that the state breached their constitutional right to privacy
The Profile: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
The identical twins, made famous when Mark Zuckerberg ‘borrowed’ their idea that ultimately became Facebook, are now registering their regulated cryptocurrency exchange Gemini in Dublin
Reduction in personal injury awards does not go far enough, businesses claim
Judicial Council voted to reduce minor awards while raising rate for catastrophic injuries, but did not agree to the 80 per cent reduction sought by business owners
Fears cyclists will be reluctant to report dangerous driving
Call for online portal where dangerous driving incidents can be uploaded after one cycling campaigner’s own footage was used to fine him
Most Pandemrix plaintiffs settle with state over swine flu vaccine
Claimants say they developed narcolepsy after getting Pandemrix vaccine for which state gave drug maker GSK indemnity