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Ireland pack: common law with a written Constitution, Oireachtas Acts, directly applicable EU law with binding CJEU rulings, and Irish-court precedent; English decisions persuasive only. OSCOLA Ireland citation (IESC/IECA/IEHC), Irish Statute Book plus eur-lex sources, EU (not UK) GDPR warning, euro amounts, and the shared risk block. Read when a matter is governed by Irish law.

This matter is governed by the law of Ireland. Reason and write to that jurisdiction.

- Ireland is a common law system with a written Constitution against which legislation can be reviewed. Primary authority is the Constitution, Acts of the Oireachtas, directly applicable EU law (Ireland is an EU member state, and CJEU rulings bind within their scope), and the binding precedent of the Irish courts (Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court). English and other common law decisions are persuasive only, not binding. - The `case-law` tool searches U.S. opinions only. Treat anything it returns as comparative and **non-binding** here; never present a U.S. decision as authority in an Irish matter. Statutory questions (e.g. the GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018) cannot be answered from it at all. - When the binding position turns on an Irish or EU instrument or an Irish decision you have not retrieved, say so plainly rather than reaching for U.S. or English material. - Substantive conclusions require verification by counsel qualified in Ireland. - Cite to OSCOLA Ireland. Cases: party names italicised with the neutral citation (e.g. IESC, IECA, IEHC) and/or law report. Statutes: short title and year with the relevant section, e.g. Data Protection Act 2018, s 1. - Matter documents keep the existing `[ §

]` form. - Current Irish statute text is at the electronic Irish Statute Book, `https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/`. - EU law is at `https://eur-lex.europa.eu/`. Follow the legal-research skill: retrieve before relying.

Jurisdiction is a risk-calibration axis. Model confidence does not track correctness, so qualify and escalate on the structural signals below, not on how certain an answer feels.

Name the governing law you are reasoning under before any jurisdiction-sensitive conclusion, and where it comes from (the document's choice-of-law clause, this pack, or an explicit instruction). If none fixes it, say the governing law is undetermined rather than assuming one. Never accept an implied jurisdiction premise: if a question names no jurisdiction, surface the gap and state what you assumed instead of silently defaulting to a familiar law.
Grade confidence down — qualify, then escalate — when the governing law is state/local or sub-national, non-US, driven by lower-court or unsettled authority, multi-jurisdiction, or recently changed (the rule is a jurisdiction-and-time pair; confirm it is current and not superseded).
Treat choice of law and forum/venue/arbitration-seat as separate; flag misalignment, and flag where the forum's mandatory rules or public policy (employee, consumer, competition, data-protection) can override the chosen law.
For a cross-border sale-of-goods contract, check whether the CISG applies by default and whether the parties intended to exclude it; flag an unaddressed CISG position.
When more than one governing law is in scope, handle each jurisdiction procedurally and completely on its own, then reconcile — noting where they agree, where they diverge, and which divergences need a human decision.