Search results : 309

The newly formed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisory Council, established on 17 January 2024 by the Minister of State with responsibility for Digital, was formed to provide independent expert advice and guidance to the Irish Government on AI policy. On 21 February 2025, the AI Advisory Council published a six-point paper entitled “Ireland’s AI Advisory Council Recommendations – Helping to Shape Ireland’s AI Future”. The stated purpose of this paper was to provide recommendations to the Irish Government to accelerate AI adoption, encourage responsible innovation,...

Part of the Public Health Alcohol Act (PHAA – the Act) came into force on 10 January 2025, seven years after it was signed into law on 17 October 2018. In particular, section 19 of the Act introduces a watershed ban for alcohol advertisement. In this sense, alcohol advertisements cannot be shown on television between 3 a.m. and 9 p.m., nor can they be broadcast on the radio on a weekday between 3 p.m. and 10 a.m the following day. These new measures were among certain revisions introduced into the Act, and which followed the introduction of a ban on alcohol advertising in or on a...

On 5 December 2024, Coimisiún na Meán (the Commission), the Irish media regulatory authority, published revised broadcasting codes and rules for radio and television broadcasters as well as a new Video-on-Demand code and rules, following a public consultation. Under the Broadcasting Act 2009 (as amended), the Commission has the power to make media service codes and media service rules. Media service codes govern the standards and practices of broadcasters and producers of audiovisual on-demand media services to ensure, amongst other things, that audiences are protected from anything harmful...

On 13 November 2024, the Irish national media regulatory authority, Coimisiún na Meán (the Commission), announced that it had determined that TikTok, X and Instagram were "exposed to terrorist content". The decision was reached in accordance with its Decision Framework on Hosting Service Provider Exposure to Terrorist Content published in June 2024. The Decision Framework defines "terrorist content", in its introduction, as content that incites, solicits, threatens or instructs on the commission of terrorist offences. A longer, more detailed definition is included...

The Irish regulator, Coimisiún na Meán (the Commission), adopted the final Online Safety Code (the Code) on 10 October and published it on 21 October, completing the Commission's overall online safety framework. This framework makes digital services accountable for how they protect users, and in particular children, from harm online. It comes in response to Section 139K of the Broadcasting Act 2009, and is designed to ensure that VSP providers take reasonable steps to provide the protections set out in Article 28b(1)(a), (b) and (c) and Article 28b(2), including the measures...