All Episodes

E147 The Fifth Court - John O’Donnell SC on Law, Literature and Life

E146 The Fifth Court - Your Reputation on Trial — And Why the Rules Are Changing - John Kerr

E145 The Fifth Court - Verona Murphy - From leaving home at 14 to Ceann Comhairle, Dáil Éireann

E144 The Fifth Court - Mr Justice Brian Cregan, Judge of the High Court | Parnell, leadership, and the law

E143 The Fifth Court - Máirín de Búrca, once more in front of the courts

E142 The Fifth Court - Garry O'Gorman, The Barrister Who Quit Law To Handicap Racehorses

E141 The Fifth Court - Mr Justice David Nolan - Advocacy, Independence and the Modern Bar

E140 The Fifth Court - Eavanna FitzGerald - Founder of The Expert Witness Site

E139 The Fifth Court - Tom Flynn SC, Planning judicial reviews, costs caps and access to justice

E138 The Fifth Court - Mary McAleese, former Uachtarán na hÉireann

Episode 137 – Darragh Mackin, Human Rights, Legacy and the Rule of Law

E136 The Fifth Court - PART II- Síofra O’Leary, former President of the European Court of Human Rights & Úna Ní Raifeartaigh, judge at the European Court of Human Rights

E135 The Fifth Court - Síofra O’Leary, former President of the European Court of Human Rights & Úna Ní Raifeartaigh, judge at the European Court of Human Rights

E134 The Fifth Court - Austria’s Supreme Court President Georg Kodek - Why the Law Can’t Save the Planet

E133 The Fifth Court - Josepha Madigan — solicitor, former cabinet minister, family-law mediator — why mediation is gaining ground,

E132 The Fifth Court - Dame Siobhán Keegan, Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, evaluating expert evidence in an age of AI

E131 The Fifth Court - Kirk Offel, Mission-critical infrastructure expert; US Navy vet turned AI-ready datacentre CEO

E130 The Fifth Court - Ukrainian Anna Mysyshyn, a leading expert in AI ethics, regulation, cybersecurity

E129 The Fifth Court - Elizabeth Winkler - was Shakespeare sole author of all 'his' works? Plenty of legals around this one.

E128 The Fifth Court - The Boundary Commission - 100 years ago. Dr. Cormac Moore, author 'The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission'

E127 The Fifth Court - Matthew Holmes, author 'Habeas Corpus: Practice and Procedure

E126 The Fifth Court - Catastrophe: Nakba II with author Fintan Drury (Legal & Human Rights Special)

E125 The Fifth Court - John Brennan, former CIA head at The Centre for Justice and Law Reform Summer School 2025

E124 The Fifth Court - Alice Doyle, Circuit Court Judge (ret.) - Justice V Vengeance, reflections on the difficulty in sentencing

E123 The Fifth Court - Mark O'Connell, author 'A Thread of Violence', on the Malcolm McArthur case - from the Kilkenny Law Festival

E122 The Fifth Court - Frank McNally, Irish Times - a Bloomsday (Legal) Special

E121 The Fifth Court - Ms Justice Marguerite Bolger, life and times of a High Court judge

E120 The Fifth Court - Dr. Ciara Smyth, Human Rights, Migration and Asylum Law expert, recorded at University College Galway

E119 The Fifth Court - Diarmuid J. Connolly BL (now quite the 'Father of the Mayo Bar' ) - recorded at the University of Galway

E118 The Fifth Court - Judge Mary Fahy (retd.) - Live from Galway thanks to GSBA

E117 The Fifth Court - Paul Keane, Reddy Charlton LLP, former Honorary Consul General of Sweden (and Beekeeper!)

E116 The Fifth Court - Edmond Honohan, 'former' Master of the High Court

E115 The Fifth Court - from the University of Limerick, former Chief Justice, Frank Clarke, SC. Part II.

E114 The Fifth Court - Former Chief Justice Frank Clarke SC - Part I.

The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #12

E113 The Fifth Court - Dr Susan Leahy, University of Limerick, on consent.

The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #11

E112 The Fifth Court - from the University of Limerick, Prof. Jennifer Schweppe, Co-Director, European Centre for the Study of Hate

The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #10

E111 The Fifth Court - Patrick Costello

The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #9

E110 The Fifth Court - Brendan Slattery, Head of Environment and Planning, McCann FitzGerald solrs.

The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #8

E109 The Fifth Court - retired High Court judge, Bernard Barton

E108 The Fifth Court - Ass. Prof. Dr. Thomas Mohr (UCD) on Hugh Kennedy, former AG and law reformer

E107 The Fifth Court - The Law Reform Commission, Siobhán Ní Chúlacháin, Director of Research & Caoilin Young, Legal Researcher

The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #7

E106 The Fifth Court - LIVE from the Law Society, Part 2 - Legal Big Bang?, Rachel Stanton, Simmons & Simmons and James Duggan, Flynn O'Driscoll

The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #6

E105 The Fifth Court - LIVE from the Law Society, Part I - Legal Big Bang?, Rachel Stanton, Simmons & Simmons and James Duggan, Flynn O'Driscoll

E104 The Fifth Court - Griffith & Griffith, the sequel. (Follow on from E57) Cyril Griffith Junior talks about what happened next

The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #5

E103 The Fifth Court - Lucy Letby Case and the role of 'expert witnesses'

The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #4

E102 The Fifth Court - Louise O'Donnell, Deputy Chair, The Labour Court

The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #3

E101 The Fifth Court - Former Mr. Justice Peter Kelly, life and times, Part II

The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #2

E100 The Fifth Court - Former Mr. Justice Peter Kelly, life and times, Part I

The Fifth Court UNPRECEDENTED #1

E99 The Fifth Court - Mick Clifford, author of 'Who Killed Una Lynskey', a complex and unsolved murder from the 1970s

E98 The Fifth Court - Nelofer Pazira, recently completed work on final book of her late husband, journalist, Robert Fisk

E97 The Fifth Court - Michael O'Farrell, journalist, on the epic hunt to Michael Lynn to justice

E96 The Fifth Court - Judge Grainne Malone talks about the new Irish Court Services podcast commemorating 100 years of the Irish courts.ars

E95 The Fifth Court at the Kilkenomics Festival - Money-laundering, White Collar Crime - Marla Dukharan and Bill Black

E94 The Fifth Court at the Ploughing Championships - 'agricultural solicitor' Aisling Meehan

E93 The Fifth Court - Pascal Pichonnaz, ELI President and Professor at University of Fribourg,

E92 The Fifth Court - Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales

E91 The Fifth Court -Arthur Mathews, author, Walled In By Hate: Kevin O’Higgins, (Minister for Justice, 1922-1927)

E90 The Fifth Court - Sisterly, co-founded by Jenny O'Connell, well-known SC turned entrepreneur. Life after the bar.

E89 The Fifth Court - Colm O'Reilly - COO Business Post Group, Chairman Newsbrands Ireland, Board member Press Council of Ireland

E88 The Fifth Court - Expert Witnesses gone bad - Mark Tottenham BL, an expert on expert witnesses talks expert witnesses

E87 The Fifth Court - Mediation v Litigation - The Peter Leonard interview

E86 The Fifth Court - Probate Made Simple, Isabella Hughes, co-founder simpleprobate.ie

E85 The Fifth Court - Ercus Stewart SC, a barrister since 1970 and a Law Library legend

E84 The Fifth Court - How to fix a dysfunctional housing market - Martin Cooney, solicitor to developers

E83 The Fifth Court - Big Problems with Enduring Powers of Attorney (EPA) - David Byrnes BL and solicitor Flor McCarthy, Founder Director of Solicitors Growth

E82 The Fifth Court - Kevin O'Higgins, solicitor and scion of one of the country's best known legal families

E81 The Fifth Court - Arko Ganguli - co-founder Legitify, simplifying cross-border transactions, digitalizing notarization

E80 The Fifth Court - Dr Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, FORBES 30 Under30 Listmaker - legal AI in action

E79 The Fifth Court - Mema Byrne BL - Landlord and Tenant Law (Commercial Sector) expert author

E78 The Fifth Court - The Bloomsday Episode - Hosts Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL on Ulysses and the obscenity laws

E77 The Fifth Court - Krystian Boino, trained Polish judge who runs his solicitor's practice in Ireland

E76 The Fifth Court - Senator Barry Ward BL on the powers of local authorities and elected councillors

E75 The Fifth Court - Joe Brolly, life, times and law.

E74 The Fifth Court - Cynthia Ní Mhurchú BL - Europe, Eurovision and legal life after RTE

E73 - Pt. 2 'A Century of Irish Courts' - Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan, Supreme Court & Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter, UCD

E72 - Pt. 1 'A Century of Irish Courts' - Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan, Supreme Court & Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter, UCD

E71 The Fifth Court - DSBA 'Legal Podcast of the Year' - Dr. Charles Garavan, UCD Business - The 'Apple Case'.

E70 The Fifth Court, Des Geraghty, former SIPTU President and MEP, on the Sinn Fein Funds cases of the 1940s.

E69 The Fifth Court - Liam Herrick, Exec. Director ICCL on Hate Speech legislation plus his work as adviser to Uachtarán na hÉireann (very, very interesting)

E68 The Fifth Court - Paul Egan, Partner Mason Hayes & Curran, discusses some of the best known corporate law cases

E67 The Fifth Court - Michael Daly, BL, author

E66 The Fifth Court - Retired District Justice Olann Kelleher talks to hosts Peter Leonard and Mark Tottenham about Cork, Cocaine and Criminals

E65 The Fifth Court - 'Irish Prisons at 107% capacity', '9/10 employers happy to employ ex-prisoners' - Saoirse Brady, Irish Penal Reform Trust

E64 The Fifth Court - The Legal Final Frontier? Outer Space Law. Zeldine O’Brien BL

E63 The Fifth Court - two top academics discuss two upcoming referendums - Deirdre McGowan, TUD and Maebh Harding, UCD

E62 The Fifth Court - Northern Ireland Troubles Legacy Act. Solicitor Darragh Mackin, "You wouldn't see the likes of it in Russia"

E61 The Fifth Court, Helen Dixon, 'Billions of Euro of fines not yet collected', outgoing Data Protection Commissioner

E60 The Fifth Court - Ian Drennan, Chief Executive Officer, Corporate Enforcement Authority

E59 The Fifth Court - The Future of Legal Practice Summit, Part II, The Law Society of Ireland, Sonia McEntee & David Peters

E58 The Fifth Court - The Future of Legal Practice Summit, Part I, The Law Society of Ireland, Sonia McEntee & David Peters

E57 The Fifth Court - The curious case of Griffith V Griffith (1944)

E56 The Fifth Court - Martin Bradley, BL on the law around antiquities like the Elgin Marbles case

E55 The Fifth Court - Mark Garrett, Director General, Law Society of Ireland

E54 The Fifth Court - The Devils' Episode - Sarah Reid BL, Aran Grealish BL

E 53 The Fifth Court, Valerie Peart, Principal Pearts Solicitors & Town Agents, (est. 1883)

E52 The Fifth Court, Aoife Farrelly barrister, Susan Ahern, barrister, on sports arbitration

E51 The Fifth Court - Ronan McGreevy co-author, The Kidnapping: A hostage, a desperate manhunt and a bloody rescue that shocked Ireland

E50 The Fifth Court - Mr Justice Gerard Hogan, The Supreme Court, Part II. 50th anniversary McGee v. The Attorney General [1973] decision.

E49 The Fifth Court - Mr Justice Gerard Hogan of The Supreme Court discusses the seismic McGee v. The Attorney General [1973] decision.

E48 The Fifth Court - Barry Andrews MEP

E47 The Fifth Court - Tim Ryan, author Housing: A Missed Opportunity - the tangled story of the Kenny Report published by the Irish Government in 1973

E46 The Fifth Court, Michael O'Flaherty, Director of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency - implementing human rights 'on the ground'..

E45 The Fifth Court - Niamh Howlin, Ass. Professor Law UCD - author, a history of barristers in Ireland

E44 The Fifth Court - Former solicitor, barrister now novelist, Andrea Carter

E43 The Fifth Court - Barry Creed, Partner, McDermott Creed & Martyn Solicitors

E42 The Fifth Court - Patricia Hickey and Gary Lee, Irish Court Services making courts more inclusive

E41 The Fifth Court - Rock and Roll, Part 2. Electric Picnic interview w/ Rory Carroll, author Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

E40 The Fifth Court - Rock and Roll, Part 1. Electric Picnic interview w/ Rroy Carroll, author Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

E39 The Fifth Court, Dr. Ian Marder, Restorative Justice expert

E38 The Fifth Court - David McKechnie, Life After Law

E37 The Fifth Court - Retired High Court judge Deirdre Murphy, 'too many barristers', 'big law firms are fixed on the bottom line'

E36 The Fifth Court - Glen Gibbons SC on the highly contentious area of copyright law - presented by Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL

E35 The Fifth Court - Michael O'Higgins SC asks 'But is it justice..?' Presented by Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL

E34 The Fifth Court - The 'Eileen Flynn' case, Dr. Donal Coffey NUI Maynooth, explains this extraordinary case to presenters Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL

E33 - The Fifth Court - Mark Finan BL & Caroline McGrath BL on CJEU cases around GDPR

E32 The Fifth Court - Prof Oonagh Breen & Dr. Noel McGrath BL discuss Chief Baron Palles, forty years an Irish judge

E31 The Fifth Court Luigi Rea BL and Darren Lalor BL talk strike for the restitution of their professional fees

E30 The Fifth Court, former Supreme Court judge, John MacMenamim on why he had 'the best job in the world'.

E29 The Fifth Court - Daithí Mac Cárthaigh - the Irish language and the law

E28 The Fifth Court - Mr. Justice Richard Humphreys rebuts claims that court judgements are tainted by Wikipedia

E27 The Fifth Court, journalist and author Dominic Carman, son of famous libel lawyer George Carman, talks about Ireland's legal firms and, of course, about his famous dad...

E26 The Fifth Court - Dr Brian Flanagan, NUI Maynooth, purported Wikipedia use by High Court judges

E25 The Fifth Court - Fred Logue, solicitor, sometimes seen as David V Goliath in planning cases

E24 The Fifth Court - Bill Holohan solicitor and SC talks mediation

E23 The Fifth Court - Cian O'Carroll solicitor incl his work with client Vicky Phelan

E22 The Fifth Court Geoffrey Robertston KC '

E21 The Fifth Court - Martin Canny BL - The Statute of Limitations

E20 The Fifth Court - Kevin Duffy, Labour Court (retd.)

E19 The Fifth Court - Mr. Declan Keane on medical case 'expert shopping'

E18 The Fifth Court Ciara Dowd BL and solicitor Aileen Curry

E17 The Fifth Court Stephen Hanaphy BL PhD - curious cases of copyright law

E16 The Fifth Court - Dr. Neil Maddox BL, lecturer NUI Maynooth, on laws around vaccines and personal rights

E15 The Fifth Court - Ted Harding SC, media law et al

E14 The Fifth Court - Gemma McLoughlin-Burke - life as a Judicial Assistant

E13 The Fifth Court - Claire Bruton BL & Cliona Kimber SC

E12 The Fifth Court - Frank Buttimer, Cork solicitor

E11 The Fifth Court - West Cork solicitor Flor McCarthy

E10 The Fifth Court, Ursula Kilkelly, Professor and Head of College of Business and Law, UCC

E9 - Sara Phelan SC, Chair of Bar Council, The Fifth Court

E8 The Fifth Court - Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan and the execution of Erskine Childers

E7 The Fifth Court - Gerard Groarke BL & Stephen Dowling SC - automating the law

E6 The Fifth Court - Colm O'Dwyer SC, Asylum

E5 The Fifth Court Katherine McGillicuddy BL - The Special Criminal Court

Episode 4 The Fifth Court - Keith Walsh SC and Solicitor, talks about all aspects of family law, including what he's seeing with same-sex divorces and issues around share vesting for Big Tech employees

Episode 3 The Fifth Court - Ireland's legal podcast - Simon Mills SC, medical negligence

Episode 2 The Fifth Court - Ireland's legal podcast - Karyn Harty, Partner, Dentons

Episode 1 - The Fifth Court legal podcast - VIP guest Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan