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20 Cards in this Set
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Hanafin v Minister for the Environment
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"...the setting aside of a referendum must be regarded as an awesome undertaking." O'Flaherty J
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Curtin v Clerk of Dáil Éireann
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"The courts are required to act as custodians of the Constitution and as such, to act as a check on the functions of the other two arms of government." Murray CJ
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McKenna v An Taoiseach
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"...the People...are entitled to be permitted to reach their decision free from unauthorised interference by any of the organs of the State."
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David Gywnn-Morgan
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"...in McKenna (No.2) (in regard to referenda), the "Supremacy of the Constitution" trumped the separation of powers." Judicial-o-centric: Separation of Powers on the Wane?
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Cahill
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"...the courts require that pre-referendum conditions...be tightly controlled in order that the basic requirements and transparency, breeding legitimacy, can be imputed to the referendum results." Ireland's Constitutional Amenability and Europe's Constitutional Ambition: The Lisbon Treaty Referendum in Context
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Fox & Murphy
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“...the government, running scared and running out of ideas, is making cavalier with the constitution and trying to shift responsibility to the people by offering them single-sentence abortion referenda” Irish Abortion: Seeking Refuge in a Jurisprudence of Doubt and Delegation
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Conor Geanly
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“Judges can occasionally deliver short cuts on the way to justice, but such advances are always contingent on political consolidation” The Politics of Abortion
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A.G. v X
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“...the failure by the legislature to enact the appropriate legislation is no longer just unfortunate; it is inexcusable. What are pregnant women to do? What are the parents of a pregnant girl to do? What are doctors to do?” McCarthy J
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Airteagal 40.3.3: Gan Reachtaíocht, Gan Réasúin
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"...caithfidh an reachtaíocht seo a bheith éifeachtach agus substainteach má tá sé chun fíor-athrú a dhéanamh agus an ceart bunreachtúil... a chur i bhfeidhm seachas béalghrá a thabhairt do." Gary Moloney
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A,B&C v Ireland
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"...a striking discordance between the theoretical right...and the reality of it's practical applications" ECHR
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J.M. Kelly
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“...the test tried to achieve the impossible – it expressly equated two rights which, on those rare occasions when they come into conflict, cannot be reconciled”
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O'Donoghue v Minister for Health
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"...to make the best possible use of his or her inherent and potential capacities, physical, mental and moral, however limited those capacities may be." O'Hanlon J.
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Conor O'Mahony
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"By holding that the test is not whether a provision is better or best, but whether it is appropriate, MacMenamin J erodes the position... that the education contemplated by Article 42.2 should allow a child to make the best possible use of his capacities." The Right to Education and the "Constitutionally Appropriate" Provision
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Sinnott v Minister for Education
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"...the age of 18 as advanced by the State has the merit of being the latest at which a person could, with any element of reality, be regarded as a child" Hardiman J
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DB v Minister for Justice
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It was not their function to make “assessments on the validity of competing claims on national resources”
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TD v Minister for Education
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"..."clear disregard"...a conscious and deliberate decision by the organ of state to act in breach of its constitutional obligation to other parties, accompanied by bad faith or recklessness." Murray J
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Karen Ní Bhuacháin
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"Níl ár reachtaÌocht chomh fairsing le reachtaíocht Ceanada áfach, áit go bhfuil prionsabal Offre active ar fáil, a thugann deis don shaoránach a rogha teanga a úsáid." Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúila COLR
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O’Beoláin v Fahy
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“I Stát inarb í an Ghaeilge an teanga náisiúnta agus an chéad teanga oifigiúil... is gá na dlíthe a eisiúint, agus... iad a fheidhmiú i ngach ceann de na teangacha oifigiúla.” Hardiman J
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Verona Ní Dhrisceoil
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“In order for the Act to be effective, the gaps between rhetoric and reality must be bridged.” Irish Language Rights in the Era of Austerity
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Séan O'Conaill
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"...b'fhéidir go raibh breithiúnas an mhionlaigh Ó Beoláin níos tabhachtaí fós." Áit Nach Sásaíonn Cúpla Focal: Oidhreacht Leanúnach Ó Beoláin v Fahy
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