Ireland: Technology

Ireland's Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Act 2026 has been signed into law, establishing the AI Office of Ireland as the central coordinating authority for EU AI Act compliance. The legislation creates a distributed oversight model involving multiple national bodies and introduces comprehensive supervision, enforcement mechanisms, and regulatory sandboxes to balance innovation with regulatory compliance.

Michael Egan and Michael Scorer explore how organisations are transitioning from AI experimentation to practical implementation in legal workflows. They examine why generative AI adoption has doubled while confidence remains low, and discuss the critical role of defensibility, governance, and human oversight in successful AI deployment.

The Irish Government has published the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026, establishing a comprehensive framework for supervising and enforcing the EU AI Act in Ireland. This legislation creates the AI Office of Ireland as an independent statutory body to coordinate AI regulation, introduces a distributed oversight model involving multiple sectoral authorities, and provides detailed procedures for adjudication and administrative sanctions. The Bill addresses critical questions about how Ireland

The Digital Services Bill 2023 ("DSB") has been published and endorsed by Simon Coveney, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and Dara Calleary the Minister for Trade Promotion...

From the onset of the pandemic our ways of working have changed dramatically. Some of us are working from bedrooms and dining rooms, with some being lucky enough to have dedicated home offices.

Matheson's head of digital services Tom Connor shares his insights into working as part of the senior management team to design, execute and lead the evolving digital transformation strategy at Ireland's largest law firm.

The Freedom of Information Bill 2013 was published on 25 July 2013 by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin.

On 21 September 2012, the Data Protection Commissioner ("DPC") published his second audit report on Facebook Ireland.

Cloud computing is the delivery of software and data storage solutions via the internet with the associated hardware generally located in datacentres far from the cloud customers’ main business premises.