, were legal confrontations which tested the boundaries of its Constitution. Ireland's dualist constitutional heritage was …Alongside the unprecedented political and economic crises which hit Ireland with the collapse of its economy in 2008 … intergovernmental European Stability Mechanism and the Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Eurozone. For Ireland …

appears to have been prompted, at least in part by the recommendation made by the Joint Committee on the Constitution, that … Irish constitutional law to be found in the case law of courts outside Ireland. Both the deliberations of the citizens …

Ireland remained in a permanent state of emergency from 1939 to 1995. While there were significant existential threats … navigating a path between Commissarial and Sovereign Dictatorship; between Verfassung and Verfassungsgesetze. If Article 28 ….3.3: had been more reflective of the 1934 Committee proposal Ireland might have avoided becoming a nation of Hiroo Onodas: a …