Whistleblower Solicitor Ireland
For the people who speak up — whistleblowers facing penalisation, workers experiencing harassment, and survivors pursuing civil claims.
Richard O’Shea, Solicitor — Mary Molloy Solicitors, established 1981. Confidential consultations. Dublin & Kilkenny, clients nationwide.
How We Help
Three kinds of client, one side of the room: the person who reported, the person who was harassed, the person who was harmed. Every route on this site stays your choice, at your pace.
Protected Disclosures & Whistleblowing
The worker’s guide to the Act that changed in your favour in 2023 - who is protected, for what, and how far the protection reaches.
Whistleblower Penalisation Claims
Punished for reporting? Since 2023 your employer must prove it wasn’t retaliation - the reversed burden, the WRC route, the remedies.
Whistleblower Interim Relief
Being penalised right now? The Circuit Court can intervene - but the application window is 21 days. The urgent page.
Making a Protected Disclosure
Channels, tiers, the Commissioner, and doing it right before doing it - because how you report shapes how you’re protected.
Workplace Sexual Harassment
What the law actually protects against, your employer’s liability, the WRC route and its clocks - explained plainly, at your pace.
Workplace Sexual Assault
Where the criminal process, employment claims and civil claims run in parallel - all of them your choice, none of them exclusive.
Sexual Assault Civil Claims
Your own case, on the balance of probabilities, whatever happens in any criminal process - the civil route explained with care.
Historical Abuse Claims
Time limits have extensions built for survivors, and institutions can be answerable - never assume it’s too late without advice.
NDA & Settlement Agreement Advice
Since November 2024, harassment NDAs are void unless strict conditions are met - including independent legal advice your employer pays for.
Victimisation & Retaliation
Punished for complaining, supporting a colleague, or raising safety concerns - the protections beyond the whistleblowing Act.
Constructive Dismissal
When staying became impossible and leaving became the claim - the high bar, the evidence, and the honest assessment first.
Investigations & Employer Compliance
For employers: disclosure channels, harassment policies per the IHREC Code, and investigations run fairly - prevention done properly.
Since 2023, Your Employer Must Prove It Wasn’t Retaliation
The Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act 2022 quietly transformed Irish whistleblower law from January 2023 — and most workers still don’t know it. The burden of proof reversed: penalisation after a disclosure is presumed to be because of it unless the employer proves otherwise. Penalisation itself widened far beyond dismissal — demotion, blacklisting, harassment, withheld training, reputational harm. Protection extended to volunteers, board members, trainees and job applicants. Interim relief in the Circuit Court now covers penalisation generally, on a 21-day clock. And a new Commissioner receives disclosures that have nowhere else to go. The law moved decisively in the reporting worker’s favour; the cases are decided by documents and dates.
Time limits in these cases are short, strict, and depend on your exact circumstances — WRC complaints generally run on months, civil claims on years, and important extensions exist, particularly for survivors of abuse. Never assume you are out of time, and never assume you have time: take advice promptly. Nothing on this page is legal advice for your situation.
Two minutes on the Protected Disclosure Checker shows what the Act likely makes of your situation.
If Something Happened to You
Harassment or assault — at work or anywhere — carries legal routes that are yours to take or leave: workplace claims, civil claims, a Garda report, any combination, or none. A confidential conversation maps them without committing you to anything. At your pace. Your choice, every step.
Support Is There, Whatever You Decide
If you are in immediate danger, call 999 or 112. The Rape Crisis Ireland 24-hour national helpline is 1800 778 888 — free, confidential, and for people of all genders. Sexual Assault Treatment Units (SATUs) provide medical care whether or not you report to Gardaí. Support is there whatever you decide to do — including deciding nothing today.
Acting Nationwide
These are the files people prefer not to bring to the solicitor their town knows — distance and discretion are features here, and the work runs on documents, phone and email.
Frequently Asked Questions
One Confidential Call
Your position, your options, and the clocks that apply — mapped in confidence, with no obligation to take a single step afterwards.
Call 01 5827148