23 Ann’s latest novel


is a chart hit The latest novel by well-known Irish Examiner court reporter Ann O’Loughlin, ‘My Mother’s Daughter’, entered the Irish bestseller charts in its first week of publication. ‘My Mother’s Daughter’ (Orion, 2019) was launched at Dubray Books on Dublin’s Grafton Street. Ann’s debut novel, The Ballroom Café, was


a worldwide Kindle bestseller and an Irish bestseller. Her other two novels, ‘The Judge’s Wife’ and ‘The Ludlow Ladies’ Society’, were also Irish bestsellers. Ann’s books have been translated into 10 languages and are also published in the United States and Australia.


Hilary McGouran, Deputy Director of RTÉ News, Ann O’Loughlin, author, and Clare Hey of Orion Books at the launch of Ann’s novel, ‘My Mother’s Daughter’, in Dubray Books, Grafton Street, Dublin. Photo: Conor Ó Mearáin


A French court case about two children


swapped at birth is the inspiration for Ann’s fourth novel, ‘My Mother's Daughter’.


Photography’s rights and restrictions


A new book by freelance photographer Michael O’Flanagan details the rights and restrictions on taking and publishing photographs in Ireland. “The taking of photographs is one issue,” Michael said. “Publication is completely separate.” “Photography and the Law: Rights and


Restrictions” (Routledge, 2018), Michael’s first book, is based on his PhD thesis at National University of Ireland Galway’s School of Law. “There are a number of books on laws for journalists, but there wasn’t a book dealing specifically with legal rights and restrictions on taking and publishing photographs, so basically it’s filling that void and it’s very much to the point,” Michael said. Photographers and publishers enjoy a wide


range of legal rights, though these rights are not absolute. Michael’s work analyses the legal restrictions and prohibitions that may affect those rights under Irish, UK, and EU law, and offers an analysis of the current legal standpoint on the relationship between privacy and freedom of expression. Michael also suggests reforms and enactments to rebalance the relationship between an individual’s rights, the responsibilities of the state, and the protection of photographers’ and publishers’ rights.


“Photography and the Law: Rights and Restrictions” is written for academics, law students, photographers, publishers, and editors, Michael said. “It lays out what the law is, both from the statutory point of view and from a constitutional point of view, and how that law is interpreted by


the courts,” he said. Michael, a member of the NUJ’s Irish South-


West branch, has won 71 awards (five gold, 45 silver, and 21 bronze) for his photographic work at the Irish Professional Photographers’ and Videographers’ Association’s annual Photographer of the Year awards. His NUIG doctoral research, Taking and Publishing Photographs: The Legal Rights and Restrictions, was funded by the university’s School of Law RDJ Glynn Doctoral Research Fellowship.


“Photography and the Law: Rights and Restrictions” is available on Amazon and in bookshops.


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