About Mary Molloy Solicitors

One Side of the Room

Most of the legal content in these areas is written for employers — compliance memos about disclosure channels, defensive briefings on harassment policies. This site is written for the other chair: the worker who reported wrongdoing and watched their career turn cold; the person navigating what happened to them at work or elsewhere; the survivor weighing whether and how to pursue a civil claim. In contested matters we act for claimants — stated openly, because in these areas you should know whose side a solicitor is on before you dial. Our one employer-facing service — building disclosure channels, harassment policies and fair investigations — is prevention work, and we never act on both sides of the same dispute.

The practice is led by Richard O’Shea, a solicitor whose employment litigation runs through exactly these files — penalisation, discrimination, harassment, dismissal — alongside civil claims work. Richard holds a Diploma in Mediation from the Law Society of Ireland, used in this practice the only way it should be: as one option among several that always remain the client’s choice, never as pressure toward a quiet settlement. Since November 2024, that principle has statutory company — the law now voids most harassment NDAs unless the employee themselves requested one, with independent legal advice the employer pays for.

How These Files Are Run

Confidentially — from the first call, whether or not anything follows it. At your pace — the law has clocks, and we will tell you honestly what they are, but the decisions are yours and pressure is not a service. On documents and dates — contemporaneous notes, preserved messages and clean timelines decide these cases, and building that record is the first practical work of every file. And with honest arithmetic — what a claim is realistically worth pursuing, what it will cost in money and in energy, and what the alternatives look like, before any proceedings issue.

Our Offices

Dublin: The Ormond Building, 31-36 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 7 (D07 EE37). Kilkenny: 2 Rose Inn Street (R95 W58D). We act nationwide — and for the files on this site, many clients specifically prefer a solicitor outside their own town. Call 01 5827148 or see the contact page.

Talk It Through in Confidence

One call: your position, your options, the clocks - and no obligation to take a single step afterwards.