Committees of the Law Society

As at November 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: Eamon Harrington

  • Rosemarie Loftus

  • Valerie Peart

  • Barry MacCarthy

  • Martin Lawlor

  • Paul Egan SC

  • Keith Walsh SC

  • Mark Garrett

  • Secretary: Edel McCormack


  • Chair: Bbredan Cunningham

  • Vice-Chair: Justine Carty

  • Alison Egan

  • Barbara Galvin

  • Dónal Hamilton

  • Richard Hammon SC

  • Áine Hynes SC

  • Fiona McNulty

  • Gerard O’Connell

Ex officio

  • Eamon Harrington

  • Rosemarie Loftus

  • Valerie Peart

Consultants

  • Colm Costello

  • John O’Connor

  • Michael V O’Mahony

  • Michael Peart

  • Carol Plunkett

  • Geoffrey Shannon SC

  • Prof. Irene Lynch Fannon

  • Secretary:


  • Chair: Rosemarie Loftus

  • Vice-Chair: Paul Egan SC

  • Garry Clarke

  • Brendan Cunningham

  • Stuart Gilhooly SC

  • Richard Hammond SC

  • Julie Herlihy

  • Paul Keane

  • Sonya Lanigan

  • Martin Lawlor

  • Barry MacCarty

  • Sonia McEntee

  • Michelle Ní Longáin SC

  • Michael Quinlan

  • Austin Slattery

Ex officio

[Administrative Sub-Committee of Finance]

  • Chair: Eamon Harrington

  • Rosemarie Loftus

  • Valerie Peart

  • Barry MacCarthy

  • 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

  • Sonya Lanigan

  • Austin Slattery

  • Secretary: Gillian Cregan

[Investment Sub-Committee]

  • Chair: Brendan Cunningham

  • Paul Egan SC

  • Mark Garrett

  • Julie Herlihy

  • Sonia McEntee

  • Michael Quinlan

  • Austin Slattery 

  • Secretary: Glen Newman

[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

  • Garry Clarke

  • Niall Connors

  • Deborah Crowley

  • Sonya Lanigan

  • Mary McAveety

  • Frank Mee

  • Juli Rea

  • Annmarie Reddy

  • Secretary: Tina Beattie


  • Chair: Sonia McEntee

  • Vice-Chair: Martin Lawlor

  • Niall Connors

  • Derek Gately

  • Bill Holohan SC

  • Siun Hurley

  • Nuala McAnally

  • Shane Neville

  • Louise O’Reilly

  • 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

Members:

  • Gerard Carroll

  • Julie Breen

  • Gerard Carroll

  • Thomas Coughlan

  • Niamh Counihan

  • Deborah Crowley

  • Anne-Marie Dermody

  • Leonora Doyle

  • Theresa Ham

  • David Lavelle

  • Sonya Lanigan

  • Aidan Leahy

  • Gary Lee

  • Avril Mangan

  • Mary McAveety

  • Patrick McNeice

  • Hilary O’Connor

  • Tony O’Sullivan

  • Alison Quail

  • Juli Rea

  • Noeleen Redmond

  • Eamonn Shannon

  • Marcin Szulc

Lay Members

  • Richard George

  • Deirdre Kiely

  • Frank Mee

  • Annmarie Reddy

  • Secretary: Niall Connors

  • Deputy Committee Secretary: Tina Beattie


Non-Standing Committees


  • Chair: Liam Guidera

  • Vice-Chair: Heln Kilroy

  • Michael Carrigan

  • Eamonn Conlon SC

  • Joan Doran

  • Larry Fenelon SC

  • Kevin Harnett

  • Deirdre Hennessy

  • Bill Holohan SC

  • Alison Kelleher

  • Graham Kenny

  • Karen Killoran

  • Rebecca McKittrick

  • James Kinch

  • Martin Lawlor

  • Brian McMullin

  • Hilary O'Connor
  • Julie Sadlier

  • Hannah Shaw

  • Keith Walsh SC

  • Secretary: John Lunney

  • Chair: Eleanor Daly

  • Vice-Chair: Philip Andrews SC

  • Gregory Benson

  • Joy Compton

  • Niamh Counihan

  • Maire Cunningham

  • Marie Gavin

  • Michael Hanley

  • Patricia Heavey

  • Daniel Holohan

  • Suzanne Kearney

  • Neil Keenan

  • Barbara Kenny

  • Johnathan Lynam

  • Justin McKenna

  • Ruairi Mulrean

  • Seán Nolan

  • Fiona O’Connell

  • Gavin O’Flaherty

  • John Olden

  • Morgan Pierse

  • Eamonn Shannon

  • Lindsay Stevens

  • Paul White

  • Secretary: Claire McGee


  • Chair: Eleanor McKiernan

  • Vice-Chair: Keith McConnell

  • Joan Byrne

  • Tom Davy

  • Kenneth Egan

  • Majella Egan

  • Deirdre Fox

  • Joyce Good Hammond

  • Denise Healy

  • Damien Jordan

  • Ann Marie Keane

  • Geraldine Kelly

  • Sonia McEntee

  • Anna McLoughlin

  • 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

  • Cairbhe óg Finan

  • Alan Gannon

  • Helena Kiely

  • Aidan Leahy

  • Margaret McEvilly

  • Gary Mulchrone

  • Joan O’Brien

  • Michael O’Connor

  • John O’Doherty

  • Emer O’Sullivan

  • Richard Young

  • Secretary: Sara Van den Bergh


  • Chair: Emma Crowley

  • Vice-Chair: Bill Holohan SC

  • Mark Brewer

  • Colm Costello

  • Mairéad Duncan-Jones

  • Laura Durning

  • Elaine Hall

  • T P Kennedy

  • Susan Martin

  • Rory O’Boyle

  • Bernadette Smith

  • Secretary: Paul Breslin


  • Chair: Siobhra Rush

  • Vice-Chair: Ronnie Neville

  • Susan Battye

  • Geraldine Carr

  • Maura Connolly

  • Áine Curran

  • Michael Doyle

  • Wendy Doyle

  • Dónal Hamilton

  • Nichola Harkin

  • Louise Harrison

  • Janice Kavanagh

  • Karen Killalea

  • Anne Lyne

  • Deirdre Malone

  • Sinead Morgan

  • Sonya Morrissy Murphy

  • Peter Murphy

  • Louise O’Byrne

  • Anne O’Connell

  • Éinde O'Donnell

  • 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: Jonathan Patel


  • Chair: Richard Kelly

  • Vice-Chair: Duncan Grehan

  • Hilkka Becker

  • Martin Cooney

  • Maura Derivan

  • Paul Egan SC

  • Brendan Hayes

  • Niamh Hodnett

  • Anthony Joyce

  • Paul Keane

  • T P Kennedy

  • Cormac Little SC

  • Alan McCarthy

  • Ross McMahon

  • Bernard O’Connor SC

  • Maureen O’Neill

  • Secretary: Deirdre Flynn


  • Chair: Rachel Minch SC

  • Vice Chair: Danielle Conaghan

  • Eoin Brady

  • Brendan Curran

  • Rory Ferguson

  • Andrew Jackson

  • Nap Keeling

  • Conor Linehan SC

  • Elaine Oonan

  • Zoe Richardson

  • Fergal Ruane

  • Gabriel Toolan

  • Secretary: Clare Tarpey


  • (with responsibility also for Civil Legal Aid)

  • Chair: Siún Hurley

  • Vice-Chair: Eamonn Carroll

  • Ailbhe Burke

  • Helen Coughlan

  • Brendan Dillon

  • Elizaveta Donnery

  • Peter Doyle

  • Lorna Duffy

  • Catherine Ghent

  • Liz Healy

  • Sinéad Kearney SC

  • Denise Kirwan

  • Maria McCahill

  • Donagh McGowan

  • Josepha Madigan

  • Michele O’Boyle SC

  • Martina Ryan

  • Orlagh Sharkey

  • Annette Sheehan

  • Keith Walsh SC

  • Canice Walsh

Consultants

  • Rosemary Horgan

  • Joan O’Mahony

  • Geoffrey Shannon SC

  • Secretary: Judith Tedders


  • Chair: Ken Casey

  • Vice-Chair: Richard Hammond SC

Members

  • Aoife Byrne

  • Justine Carty

  • Mairéad Cashman

  • Sarah-Jane Clifford

  • Maura Derivan

  • Niall Geaney

  • Richard Hammond SC

  • Michael Kealey

  • Paul Lavery

  • Gary Lee

  • Sonia McEntee

  • Heather Murphy

  • Andrew Sheridan

  • Secretary: Mark McDermott


(with responsibility also for guidance on Practice Management)

  • Chair: Cian Moriarty

  • Vice-Chair: Catherine Mac Ginley

  • Robert Baker

  • Justine Carty

  • Gus Cullen

  • Conor Dalton

  • Sean Durcan

  • Bill Holohan SC

  • Caitriona Healy

  • Wesley Hudson

  • Niamh Kelly

  • Sharon McElligott

  • Susan Martin

  • Michael Martin

  • Annmarie Ryan

  • Paul Ryan

  • Madeleine Thornton

  • Edel Traynor

Consultant


  • Chair: Cristina Stamatescu

  • Vice-Chair: Áine Flynn

Members

  • Katie Bermingham-Thomas

  • Stephen Collins                                  

  • Orla Crowe    

  • Kieran Cummins

  • Gary Daly

  • Diego Gallagher                                 

  • Lebeau Jonker

  • Imran Khursid

  • Gary Lee

  • Sinéad Lucey

  • Eithne Lynch

  • Shane McCarthy

  • Sandra Moloney  

  • Mary O’Donoghue

  • Ashimedua Okonkwo

  • Thomas Reilly

  • Rose Wall  

  • Secretary: David Irwin


  • Chair: Alison Bradshaw

  • Vice-Chair: Roisin Magee

  • Michael Barrett
  • Brian Canavan

  • Sarah Jane Clifford

  • Nicola Curry

  • Ciara Daly

  • Caroline Dee-Brown

  • Aisling Fitzgerald

  • Orla Fitzpatrick

  • Ciara Gaffney

  • Jennifer Hartnett O'Connor

  • Ronan Lennon

  • Áine McCarthy

  • Deirdre McDermott

  • Margaret Maguire

  • Nicole Muldoon

  • James Murray

  • Thomas Reilly

  • Tara Smith

  • Tara Woulfe

  • Secretary: Louise Campbell


  • Chair: Elaine Morrissey

  • Vice-Chair: Gerard Kelly

  • Mary Bleahene

  • John Cahir SC

  • Simon Carty

  • Maureen Daly                                    

  • Ann Henry

  • James Hickey

  • Catherine Keane

  • Deirdre Kilroy

  • Paul Lavery

  • Patricia McGovern

  • David McMunn

  • Leo Moore

  • Olivia Mullooly

  • Aoife Murphy

  • Fiona O’Beirne

  • Alistair Payne

  • Carlo Salizzo

  • Barry Scannell

  • Laura Scott  

  • Consultant: Tara MacMahon

  • Secretary: Ruth Tracey


  • 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: Ann McGarry

  • Vice-Chair: Sonya Lanigan

  • Lisa Carty

  • Shane Coyle

  • Paula Cullinane

  • Stuart Gilhooly SC

  • William Harvey

  • Elaine Hickey

  • Áine Hynes SC

  • Barry Kelleher

  • Graham Kenny          

  • Martina Larkin

  • Martin Lawlor

  • Aidan Leahy

  • Conor MacGuill

  • Rowena McCormack

  • Brian McMullin

  • Fiona McNulty

  • Susan Martin

  • Emma Meagher Neville

  • Conor Minogue

  • Niamh Ní Mhurchú

  • Michele O’Boyle SC

  • Jack O’Brien

  • Joseph O’Malley

  • Róisín Peart

  • Colette Reid

  • Julie Sadlier

  • Marcin Szulc

  • Damien Tansey SC

  • Derek Walsh

  • Aisling Woods  

  • 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

  • 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: Rucahrd Hammond SC

  • Elaine Byrne

  • Joan Doran   

  • Avril Flannery

  • Michael Kealey

  • Shane McCarthy

  • Chris Murnane

  • Hilary O’Connor

  • Michael Quinlan

  • Keith Walsh SC

  • Susan Webster

  • Secretary: Michelle Nolan


  • Chair: Aidan Fahy

  • Vice-Chair: Sonya Manzor

  • Deirdre Barnicle

  • Matthew Broadstock

  • Niamh Caffrey

  • Fintan Clancy

  • Maura Dineen

  • Caolán Doyle

  • John Cuddigan                      

  • Caroline Devlin                                             

  • Ruth Higgins                  

  • Emer Hunt

  • Donal Kennedy                     

  • Linda Kelleher

  • Niamh Keogh

  • David Lawless

  • Patricia McCarvill

  • Elaine Mooney

  • Margaret O’Connell

  • Andrew Quinn

  • James Somerville

  • Secretary: Nora Ward


  • Chair: Kate McKenna

  • Vice-Chair: Labhaoise Ní Fhaoláin  

  • Jane Bourke                                        

  • Neil Butler

  • Paula Fearon

  • Sean Groeger

  • Jim Heney

  • Brian Horkan

  • Oguz Kartoz

  • Eamonn Keenan

  • Dermot Kelly

  • Jeanne Kelly

  • Nicola Kiely

  • Daniel Lucey

  • Peter McKenna

  • Tanya Moeller

  • Ronan O’Brien

  • David Reilly

  • Secretary: Derek Owens


  • Chair: Frank McNamara

  • Senior Vice-Chair: Genevieve Lynch

  • Junior Vice-Chair: James McEvoy

  • Eamonn Barrett

  • Gregory Benson

  • Gillian Blanche

  • Aisling Breen

  • Lynda Crosbie

  • Michelle Cross

  • Maeve Delargy

  • Yvanne Kennedy

  • Michael Lally

  • Rebecca McKittrick

  • Sarah McNulty

  • Diarmuid ÓhUallacháin

  • Kevin Ryan

  • Observer: Current Auditor of SADSI,David Rattigan

  • 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: Áine Hynes SC

  • Vice-Chair: Joan Doran

  • Marie Calre Butler

  • Padraic Courtney

  • Maria Dillon

  • Olive Doyle

  • Niall Farrell

  • Mark Felton

  • Richard Hammond SC

  • Katharine Kelleher

  • Morette Kinsella

  • Shane McCarthy

  • Michele O’Boyle SC

  • Anne Stephenson

  • Gabriel Toolan

  • Keith Walsh SC

  • Margaret Walsh

  • Secretary: Cian Monahan


  • 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

  • T P Kennedy

  • Brian McMullin

  • Michelle Nolan

  • Secretary: Michelle Nolan


  • Chair: Michael Quinlan

  • Ciara Daly

  • Joan Doran

  • Siún Hurley

  • Teri Kelly

  • T P Kennedy

  • Michelle Ní Longáin

  • Shane McCarthy

  • Fiona McNulty

  • Antoinette Moriarty

  • Tony O’Sullivan

  • Valerie Peart

  • Secretary: Mary Duffy


  • 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