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On 11 and 16 October 2025, Comisiún na Meán (the Commission), the Irish media regulator, made decisions determining that WhatsApp Ireland Ltd. (in respect of the service Channels) and Pinterest Europe Ltd. are "exposed to terrorist content". The Commission is the Irish competent national authority under Regulation (EU) 2021/784 on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online (the Terrorist Content Online Regulation). In this role, it is responsible for overseeing the implementation of specific measures required to be taken under Article 5 of the Terrorist...

On 23 May 2025, the Irish national media regulatory authority, Coimisiún na Meán (the Media Commission) de-designated Reddit as a video-sharing platform (VSP) service. The de-designation does not come as an indication that the initial designation of the service was incorrect, but due to the fact that service provider of Reddit is no longer under the jurisdiction of Ireland, and therefore not subject to the Media Commission’s online safety codes. Reddit had been designated as a VSP services at the end of 2023, when the Media Commission issued a series of notices to services...

On 2 May 2025, the Irish Data Protection Commission released a decision finding that TikTok infringed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to the transfer of personal data of its users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to China. The Irish Data Protection Commission concluded that the transfers violated the GDPR’s requirements for cross-border data transfers and its transparency obligation. Personal data may be transferred to countries outside the EEA if those countries ensure an adequate level of data protection, either through a European Commission “adequacy...

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...