About the Practice

Mary Molloy Solicitors has practised from Dublin since 1981 — over 45 years of contentious work across employment, company, property, family and estates. This site exists for the sharpest edge of that work: the matter that cannot wait — the dismissal being executed, the assets moving, the builder at the boundary, the papers just served — where the first days decide more than the following year, and where clients need a practice built for speed without theatre.

Richard O’Shea, Solicitor

Richard leads the practice’s urgent-application work with a formation that fits the field’s realities: the Law Society of Ireland’s Diploma in Mediation — because many injunction disputes sit inside relationships that must somehow continue (the company, the family land, the neighbouring farms), and the solicitor who can litigate hard and build the settlement off-ramp serves clients better than either skill alone; and the TEP designation (Trust and Estate Practitioner) — the specialist credential for the asset structures, trusts and estates that freezing orders and company disputes constantly raise. The firm’s wider portfolio — employment, farm and company practices among them — means the underlying subject matter of most injunctions is home ground rather than translation work.

How Urgent Work Runs Here

Four habits, consistently applied. The honest triage first: not every crisis needs an injunction — sometimes a strong letter, undertakings sought, or a different procedure serves faster and cheaper, and you’ll be told which, in writing. Evidence before adjectives: urgent applications are won on chronologies, exhibits and full-and-frank affidavits, so the first hours go into the record, not the rhetoric. The price stated plainly: costs discussed openly before commitment, and the undertaking as to damages explained before any application — because clients deserve the real decision, not the exciting half of it. Both chairs respected: the practice applies for injunctions and defends them, and knowing each side’s playbook sharpens the other. Two offices serve the work — Ormond Quay in Dublin and Rose Inn Street in Kilkenny — with out-of-hours availability because emergencies don’t keep office hours.