Committees of the Law Society

As at February 2024.

Standing Committees


  • Chair: Elaine Given

Solicitor Members

  • None

Lay Members

  • Chair: Dan Murphy

  • Ultan Courtney

  • Christine Rowland

Solicitor Members (Reserve Panel)

  • Patrick Groarke

Lay Members (Reserve Panel)


  • Chair: Barry MacCarthy

  • Eamon Harrington

  • Martin Lawlor

  • Maura Derivan

  • Rosemarie Loftus

  • Brendan Twomey

  • Mark Garrett

  • Secretary: Fintan Meagher


  • Chair: Richard Hammond SC

  • Vice-Chair: Brendan Cunningham

  • Justine Carty

  • Alison Egan

  • Barbara Galvin

  • Dónal Hamilton

  • Áine Hynes SC

  • Fiona McNulty

  • Gerard O’Connell

Ex officio

  • Barry MacCarthy

  • Eamon Harrington

  • Martin Lawlor

Consultants

  • Colm Costello

  • John O’Connor

  • Michael V O’Mahony

  • Michael Peart

  • Valerie Peart

  • Carol Plunkett

  • Geoffrey Shannon SC

  • Brendan Twomey

  • Prof. Irene Lynch Fannon

  • Secretary: Colette Reid


  • Chair: Rosemarie Loftus

  • Vice-Chair: Paul Egan SC

  • Garry Clarke

  • Brendan Cunningham

  • Maura Derivan

  • Stuart Gilhooly SC

  • Richard Hammond SC

  • Julie Herlihy

  • Paul Keane

  • Sonya Lanigan

  • Sonia McEntee

  • Michelle Ní Longáin

  • Michael Quinlan

  • Austin Slattery

  • Brendan Twomey

Ex officio

  • Barry MacCarthy

  • Eamon Harrington

  • Martin Lawlor

  • Secretary: Gillian Cregan

[Administrative Sub-Committee of Finance]

  • Chair: Barry MacCarthy

  • Eamon Harrington

  • Martin Lawlor

  • Maura Derivan

  • Rosemarie Loftus

  • Paul Egan SC

  • Mark Garrett

  • Secretary: Barbara Carroll

[Audit Sub-Committee]

  • Chair: Paul Egan SC

  • Julie Herlihy

  • Martin Lawlor 

  • Sonia McEntee

  • Austin Slattery

  • Secretary:Glen Newman

[Expenses Review Sub-Committee]

  • Chair: Rosemarie Loftus

  • Julie Herlihy

  • Michele O’Boyle SC

  • Austin Slattery

  • Secretary:Paul Baily

[Investment Sub-Committee]

  • Chair: Brendan Cunningham

  • Paul Egan SC

  • Mark Garrett

  • Julie Herlihy

  • Sonia McEntee

  • Michael Quinlan

  • Austin Slattery 

  • Secretary:Gillian Cregan

[Litigation Management Sub-Committee]

  • Chair: Stuart Gilhooly SC

  • Vice-Chair: Joseph O’Malley

  • Niall Connors

  • Mark Garrett

  • Eamon Harrington

  • Rosemarie Loftus

  • Conor McDonnell

  • Valerie Peart

  • Secretary: Glen Newman

[President’s Subvention Sub-Committee]

[Property Strategy Sub-Committee]

  • Chair: Barry MacCarthy

  • Eamon Harrington

  • Michelle Ní Longáin

  • Maura Derivan

  • Secretary: Gillian Cregan


  • Chair: Dara Robinson SC

  • Vice Chair: Brian McMullin

  • Frank Bowen

  • Garry Clarke

  • Niall Connors

  • Deborah Crowley

  • Sonya Lanigan

  • Mary McAveety

  • Frank Mee

  • Juli Rea

  • Secretary: Tina Beattie


  • Chair: Bill Holohan SC

  • Vice-Chair: Sonia McEntee

  • Niall Connors

  • Derek Gately

  • Nuala McAnally

  • Lorna McAuliffe

  • Shane Neville

  • Louise O’Reilly

  • Lorraine Rowland

  • Grace Toher

  • Lay Member

  • Jim O’Mahoney

  • Secretary: Sorcha Hayes


  • Chair: Garry Clarke

  • Vice-Chairs: David Higgins

  • Áine Hynes SC

  • Terry Leggett

  • Shane McCarthy

  • Katherine McMahon

  • Gerard Carroll

  • Niamh Counihan

  • Deborah Crowley

  • Anne-Marie Dermody

  • Leonora Doyle

  • Theresa Ham 

  • Siún Hurley

  • Dermot Kelly

  • James Murphy

  • David Lavelle

  • Sonya Lanigan

  • Aidan Leahy

  • Mary McAveety

  • Kate McKenna

  • Patrick McNeice

  • Avril Mangan

  • Hilary O’Connor

  • Tony O’Sullivan

  • Juli Rea

  • Noeleen Redmond

  • Eamonn Shannon

  • Marcin Szulc

Lay Members

  • Frank Bowen

  • Richard George

  • Deirdre Kiely

  • Frank Mee

  • Secretary: Niall Connors

  • Deputy Committee Secretary: Tina Beattie


Non-Standing Committees


  • Chair: Eamonn Conlon SC

  • Vice-Chair: Liam Guidera

  • Michael Carrigan

  • Joan Doran

  • Kevin Harnett

  • Deirdre Hennessy

  • Bill Holohan SC

  • Alison Kelleher

  • Karen Killoran

  • Helen Kilroy

  • James Kinch

  • Martin Lawlor

  • Brian McMullin

  • Hannah Shaw

  • Keith Walsh SC

  • Secretary: John Lunney

  • Chair: Eleanor Daly

  • Vice-Chair: Philip Andrews SC

  • Cillian Balfe

  • Joy Compton

  • Niamh Counihan

  • Maire Cunningham

  • John Fuller

  • Michael Hanley

  • Patricia Heavey

  • Daniel Holohan

  • Suzanne Kearney

  • Neil Keenan

  • Barbara Kenny

  • Justin McKenna

  • Ruairi Mulrean

  • Seán Nolan

  • Fiona O’Connell

  • Gavin O’Flaherty

  • John Olden

  • Morgan Pierse

  • Eamonn Shannon

  • Lynsey Stevens

  • Lorcan Tiernan

  • Paul White

  • Secretary: Freda Grealy


  • Chair: Eleanor McKiernan

  • Vice-Chair: Keith McConnell

  • Suzanne Bainton

  • Joan Byrne

  • Tom Davy

  • Kenneth Egan

  • Majella Egan

  • Deirdre Fox

  • Joyce Good Hammond

  • Damien Jordan

  • Ann Marie Keane

  • Geraldine Kelly

  • Sonia McEntee

  • Niamh Mahon

  • Peter O’Dea

  • Dermot O’Dwyer

  • Tony O’Sullivan

  • Patrick Sweetman

  • Denise Wall

  • Michael Walsh

  • Elaine Whelan

Consultants

[eConveyancing Sub-Committee] 

  • Chair: Sonia McEntee

  • Vice-Chair: Keith McConnell

  • Gabriel Brennan

  • Gillian Cregan

  • Brendan Cunningham

  • Majella Egan

  • Deirdre Fox

  • Paddy Good

  • Damien Jordan

  • Eleanor McKiernan

  • Elaine Whelan

  • Secretary: Glen Newman


  • Chair: Fergus Mullen

  • Vice-Chair: Shane McCarthy

  • John Anderson

  • Yvonne Bambury

  • Amanda Connolly

  • Aoife Corridan

  • Carina Davidson

  • Cairbhe óg Finan

  • Alan Gannon

  • Helena Kiely

  • Aidan Leahy

  • Aimée McCumiskey

  • Margaret McEvilly

  • Joan O’Brien

  • Michael O’Connor

  • John O’Doherty

  • Emer O’Sullivan

  • Richard Young

  • Secretary: Patricia Harvey


  • Chair: Susan Martin

  • Vice-Chair: Emma Crowley

  • Mark Brewer

  • Orla Clayton

  • Colm Costello

  • Ruth Craig

  • Mairéad Duncan-Jones

  • Elaine Hall

  • Bill Holohan SC

  • T P Kennedy

  • Alice Murphy

  • Rory O’Boyle

  • Bernadette Smith

  • Nicola White

  • Secretary:Aisling Byrne


  • Chair: Siobhra Rush

  • Vice-Chair: Ronnie Neville

  • Susan Battye

  • Geraldine Carr

  • Maura Connolly

  • Áine Curran

  • Michael Doyle

  • Wendy Doyle

  • Dónal Hamilton

  • Nichola Harkin

  • Joanne Hyde

  • Janice Kavanagh

  • Karen Killalea

  • Ciara McLoughlin

  • Deirdre Malone

  • Sinead Morgan

  • Sonya Morrissy Murphy

  • Peter Murphy

  • Louise O’Byrne

  • Anne O’Connell

  • Catherine O’Flynn

  • Breda O’Malley

  • Jennifer O’Neill

  • Jane O’Sullivan

  • Barry Reynolds

  • Emily Sexton

  • Barry Walsh

  • Secretary: Geraldine Rafferty

[Pensions Sub-Committee]

  • Chair: Orla Ormsby

  • Jane Barrett

  • Liam Connellan

  • Lorna Duffy

  • Stephen Gillick

  • Lydia Leonard

  • James McConville

  • Secretary: Geraldine Rafferty


  • Chair: Ross McMahon

  • Vice-Chair: Richard Kelly

  • Hilkka Becker

  • Martin Cooney

  • Paul Egan SC

  • Duncan Grehan

  • Brendan Hayes

  • Niamh Hodnett

  • Anthony Joyce

  • T P Kennedy

  • Cormac Little SC

  • Alan McCarthy

  • Bernard O’Connor SC

  • Maureen O’Neill

    • Maura Derivan

  • Secretary: Megan Murphy Byrne


  • Chair: Rachel Minch SC

  • Vice Chair: Conor Linehan SC

  • Eoin Brady

  • Danielle Conaghan

  • Brendan Curran

  • Andrew Jackson

  • Nap Keeling

  • Elaine Oonan

  • Zoe Richardson

  • Fergal Ruane

  • Gabriel Toolan

  • Rory Ferguson

  • Margaret O’Leary

  • Secretary: Clare Tarpey


  • (with responsibility also for Civil Legal Aid)

  • Chair: Peter Doyle

  • Vice-Chair: Siún Hurley

  • Ailbhe Burke

  • Eamonn Carroll

  • Helen Coughlan

  • Brendan Dillon

  • Elizaveta Donnery

  • Lorna Duffy

  • Catherine Ghent

  • Liz Healy

  • Sinéad Kearney SC

  • Denise Kirwan

  • Donagh McGowan

  • Josepha Madigan

  • Michele O’Boyle SC

  • Martina Ryan

  • Orlagh Sharkey

  • Annette Sheehan

  • Keith Walsh SC

Consultants

  • Rosemary Horgan

  • Joan O’Mahony

  • Geoffrey Shannon SC

  • Secretary: Judith Tedders


  • Chair: Aisling Meehan

  • Vice-Chair: Ken Casey

  • Richard Hammond SC

  • Sarah-Jane Clifford

  • Aoife Byrne

  • Justine Carty

  • Mairéad Cashman

  • Maura Derivan

  • Niall Geaney

  • Michael Kealey

  • Teri Kelly

  • Paul Lavery

  • Sonia McEntee

  • Heather Murphy

  • Andrew Sheridan

  • Secretary: Mark McDermott


  • (with responsibility also for guidance on Practice Management)

  • Chair: Robert Baker

  • Vice-Chair: Cian Moriarty

  • Justine Carty

  • Gus Cullen

  • Conor Dalton

  • Sean Durcan

  • Bill Holohan SC

  • Caitriona Healy

  • Wesley Hudson

  • Niamh Kelly

  • Sharon McElligott

  • Catherine MacGinley

  • Susan Martin

  • Michael Moran

  • Jennifer O’Sullivan

  • Annmarie Ryan

  • Paul Ryan

  • Madeleine Thornton

Consultant


  • Chair: Gary Lee

  • Vice-Chair: Áine Flynn

Members

  • Grainne Brophy

  • Stephen Collins

  • Orla Crowe

  • Kieran Cummins

  • Gary Daly

  • Diego Gallagher

  • Lebeau Jonker

  • Sinéad Lucey

  • Eithne Lynch

  • Shane McCarthy

  • Mary O’Donoghue

  • Ashimedua Okonkwo

  • Thomas Reilly

  • Cristina Stamatescu

  • Rose Wall

  • Sandra Moloney

  • Secretary: Leo Twiggs


  • Chair: Alison Bradshaw

  • Vice-Chair: Roisin Magee

    • Michael Barrett

  • Sarah Jane Clifford

  • Jeanette Codd McDonagh

  • Nicola Curry

  • Ciara Daly

  • Caroline Dee-Brown

  • Aisling Fitzgerald

  • Orla Fitzpatrick

  • Jennifer Harnett O’Connor

  • Yvonne Keating

  • Gary Lee

  • Ronan Lennon

  • Áine McCarthy

  • Deirdre McDermott

  • Kate McKenna

  • Margaret Maguire

  • Nicole Muldoon

  • Gemma Neylon

  • Jennifer O’Sullivan

  • Thomas Reilly

  • Tara Smith

  • Peter White

  • Tara Woulfe

  • Secretary: Louise Campbell


  • Chair: Paul Lavery

  • Vice-Chair: Laura Scott

  • Mary Bleahene

  • John Cahir

  • Simon Carty

  • Maureen Daly

  • Ann Henry

  • James Hickey

  • Catherine Keane

  • Gerard Kelly

  • Deirdre Kilroy

  • Patricia McGovern

  • David McMunn

  • Leo Moore

  • Elaine Morrissey

  • Olivia Mullooly

  • Aoife Murphy

  • Fiona O’Beirne

  • Alistair Payne

  • Barry Scannell

  • Consultant

  • Tara MacMahon

  • Secretary: Katherine Kane


  • Chairs: Deirdre Fox

  • Richard Hammond SC

  • Eleanor Daly

  • Paul Egan SC

  • William Greensmyth

  • Katherine Kane

  • T P Kennedy

  • Kevin Lavin

  • Sonia McEntee

  • Conor MacGuill

  • Conan McKenna

  • Brian McMullin

  • Carol Plunkett

  • Paula Reid

  • Brendan Twomey

  • Network Manager & Secretary: Anne Tuite


  • Chair: Joseph O’Malley

  • Vice-Chair: Ann McGarry

  • Lisa Carty

  • Shane Coyle

  • Paula Cullinane

  • Stuart Gilhooly SC

  • Elaine Hickey

  • Áine Hynes SC

  • Barry Kelleher

  • Graham Kenny

  • Sonya Lanigan

  • Martina Larkin

  • Martin Lawlor

  • Aidan Leahy

  • Conor MacGuill

  • Rowena McCormack

  • Brian McMullin

  • Fiona McNulty

  • Susan Martin

  • Emma Meagher Neville

  • Conor Minogue

  • Michele O’Boyle SC

  • Jack O’Brien

  • Colette Reid

  • Julie Sadlier

  • Marcin Szulc

  • Damien Tansey SC

  • Derek Walsh

  • Aisling Woods

  • William Harvey

  • Róisín Peart

  • Secretary: Riona Leahy


  • Chair: Catherine Bourke

  • Vice-Chair: Aileen Keogan

  • Gareth Bourke

  • Gwen Bowen

  • Elaine Byrne

  • Georgina Drum

  • Jane Flannery

  • Richard Hammond SC

  • Maurice Joy

  • Morette Kinsella

  • Maria Lakes

  • Ita Lyster

  • Tom Martyn

  • Veronica Neville

  • Ciara O’Callaghan

  • Jenny Powell

  • Michael P Quinlan

  • Gemma Stack

  • Anne Stephenson

  • Margaret Walsh

  • Secretary: Padraic Courtney


  • Chair: Sonia McEntee

  • Vice-Chair: Susan Webster

  • Elaine Byrne

  • Joan Doran

  • Michael Kealey

  • Teri Kelly

  • Chris Murnane

  • Michael Quinlan

  • Secretary: Miriam Taber


  • Chair: Andrew Quinn

  • Vice-Chair: Maura Dineen

  • Deirdre Barnicle

  • Matthew Broadstock

  • Niamh Caffrey

  • Caolán Doyle

  • John Cuddigan

  • Caroline Devlin

  • Aidan Fahy

  • Ruth Higgins

  • Donal Kennedy

  • Linda Kelleher

  • Niamh Keogh

  • David Lawless

  • Patricia McCarvill

  • Sonya Manzor

  • Elaine Mooney

  • Ruairi Mulrean

  • Emer Hunt

  • Margaret O’Connell

  • James Somerville

  • Secretary: Nora Ward


  • Chair: Peter McKenna

  • Vice-Chair: Tanya Moeller

  • Jane Bourke

  • Neil Butler

  • Paula Fearon

  • Elizabeth Fitzgerald

  • Avril Flannery

  • Sean Groeger

  • Jim Heney

  • Brian Horkan

  • Oguz Kartoz

  • Eamonn Keenan

  • Jeanne Kelly

  • Nicola Kiely

  • Daniel Lucey

  • Kate McKenna

  • Labhaoise Ní Fhaoláin

  • Ronan O’Brien

  • David Reilly

  • Secretary: Derek Owens


  • Chair: Maeve Delargy

  • Senior Vice-Chair: Gregory Benson

  • Junior Vice-Chair: Frank McNamara

  • Gillian Blanche

  • Máille Brady Bates

  • Tarisai May Chidawanyika

  • Michelle Cross

  • Fiona McNulty

  • Sarah McNulty

  • Lisa Maloney

  • Tara O’Donoghue

  • Hannah Shaw

  • Luke Staines

  • Genevieve Lynch

  • Jimmy Edward

  • Observer: Current Auditor of SADSI, Calem Martin

  • Secretary: Siobhán Masterson


Working Groups and Task Forces


  • Chair: Susan Martin

  • Garry Clarke

  • Niall Connors

  • Niamh Counihan

  • Maura Derivan

  • Emma Meagher Neville

  • Niall O’Carroll

  • Robin Wrisley

  • Secretary: Rory O'Niell


  • Chair: Cormac Little SC

  • Vice-Chair: James MacGuill SC

  • Brian Bohan

  • David Brangam

  • Paul Keane

  • Martin Lawlor

  • Paraic Madigan

  • John Olden

  • Paula Reid

  • Secretary: Emma-Jane Williams


  • Chair: Tim Bouchier-Hayes

  • Vice-Chair: Paul Egan SC

  • Gillian Cregan

  • Norman Craig

  • Joan Doran

  • Patrick Dorgan

  • Padraic Halligan

  • Keith Walsh SC

  • Barry MacCarthy 

  • Eamon Harrington

  • Rosemarie Loftus

  • Secretary: Glen Newman


  • Chair: Eamonn Keenan

  • Vice-Chair: Neil Butler

  • Gabriel Brennan

  • Patrick Dorgan

  • Majella Egan

  • Deirdre Fox

  • Sonia McEntee

  • Clodagh O’Hagan

  • Martina Ward-Clancy

  • Secretary: Liam Barrett


  • Chair: Áine Hynes SC

  • Vice-Chair: Joan Doran

  • Padraic Courtney

  • Maria Dillon

  • Olive Doyle

  • Niall Farrell

  • Mark Felton

  • Richard Hammond SC

  • Patricia Hickey

  • Katharine Kelleher

  • Morette Kinsella

  • Shane McCarthy

  • Michele O’Boyle SC

  • Anne Stephenson

  • Gabriel Toolan

  • Keith Walsh SC

  • Margaret Walsh

  • Secretary: Cian Monahan


  • Chair: Sonia McEntee

  • Vice-Chair: David Higgins

  • Richard Hammond SC

  • Shane McCarthy

  • Keith Walsh SC

  • Secretary: Justin Purcell

  • Recovery of Costs in Civil Litigation Task Force

  • Chair: Stuart Gilhooly SC

  • Vice-Chair: Ann McGarry

  • Flor McCarthy

  • Rosemarie Loftus

  • Emma Meagher Neville

  • Joseph O’Malley

  • Keith Walsh SC

  • Secretary: James Egleston 


Steering Groups


  • Chair: Patrick Mullins

  • Vice-Chair: Valerie Peart

  • Laurie Grace

  • Richard Hammond SC

  • Teri Kelly

  • T P Kennedy

  • Brian McMullin

  • Michelle Nolan

  • Secretary: Michelle Nolan


  • Chair: Michael Quinlan

  • Joan Doran

  • Siún Hurley

  • Teri Kelly

  • T P Kennedy

  • Michelle Ní Longáin

  • Shane McCarthy

  • Fiona McNulty

  • Antoinette Moriarty

  • Tony O’Sullivan

  • Valerie Peart

  • Peter White

  • Secretary:Julie Breen


  • Chair: Barry MacCarthy

  • Eamon Harrington

  • Martin Lawlor

  • Maura Derivan

  • Rosemarie Loftus

  • Michelle Ní Longáin

  • Brendan Twomey

  • Mark Garrett

  • Ken Dalling

  • Secretary: Angela Flanagan


  • Chair: Paul Keane

  • Vice-Chair: Richard Hammond SC
  • Gillian Cregan
  • Brendan Cunningham
  • T P Kennedy
  • Rosemarie Loftus
  • Secretary: Glen Newman