{"id":118647,"date":"2025-11-03T02:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/118647\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T02:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:49:13","slug":"a-small-number-of-lawyers-are-making-a-lot-of-money-minister-darragh-obrien-condemns-cottage-industry-around-judicial-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/118647\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A small number of lawyers are making a lot of money\u2019 \u2013 Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien condemns \u2018cottage industry\u2019 around judicial reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Proceedings are causing unnecessary delays to critical infrastructure projects\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Darragh O'Brien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2d0165d4-90ea-46d2-947c-c496747e7afe.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Darragh O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Transport Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien has lashed out at a \u201csmall number of lawyers\u201d who are \u201cmaking a lot of money\u201d from taking judicial reviews on behalf of clients and delaying critical infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Darragh O\u2019Brien believes \u201ca cottage industry\u201d has been created in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proceedings are causing unnecessary delays to critical infrastructure projects Darragh O&#8217;Brien Transport Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien has lashed out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,71077,25746,61,60,29093],"class_list":{"0":"post-118647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-conal-thomas","10":"tag-darragh-obrien","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-metrolink"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}