With one of, if not the busiest practices for small and medium size companies in the west of Ireland, MacSweeney gives clients outside of Dublin a full service legal offering. His work has an employment focus, involving employer’s liability, and a variety of employment-related disputes and advisory work.

Over the years his clients have included Supermacs, Tayto, Valeo Foods, AIG, Lidl, Eircom, and CIE. Formerly a litigation partner in Mason Hayes and Curran, MacSweeney established the practice in 2003 and his clients now include many well-known companies in the west of Ireland and a number of prominent banking, insurance, and financial organisations.

As head of employment for the Cork-based RDJ, Cashman is a leading figure in the world of employment law and has acted in numerous cases before the Workplace Relations Commission, Labour Court and civil courts. Cashman is also a member of RDJ’s healthcare team, acting for clients including pharmaceutical companies, health insurers, medical device companies and nursing homes.

She has spoken publicly about employment law and HR issues, in particular in the areas of retirement ages and age discrimination. Big-name clients of the firm include GlaxoSmithKline, Wayfair Stores Limited, Medtronic, and University College Cork. A UCC law graduate herself, Cashman is also a non-executive director of Fota Wildlife Park, the tourism and wildlife charity.

Having initially qualified as a solicitor in Northern Ireland upon completion of her LLB in Queen’s University Belfast, the Donegal native joined ByrneWallace as an employment partner in 1999 after three years in England – crediting the UK’s existing equality framework, as well as religious discrimination rules in the North, for giving her a head start on the enactment of employment equality legislation in Ireland upon her return.

A past-president of the Law Society of Ireland, Ní Longáin advises public and private sector clients on employment, equality and administrative law issues, including Irish plcs and multinationals on major redundancy programmes and sensitive employment litigation.

A former Munster and Irish rugby international, and younger brother of former tánaiste Dick Spring, Donal Spring has served as principal of his firm since its establishment in 1996. A member of the Employment Law Association of Ireland, and a trained mediator and member of the Mediators Institute of Ireland, Spring’s team was the first to be named employment law team of the year at the Irish Law Awards in 2013. He advises on all elements of employment law, regularly drafting and advising on contracts, policies and procedures, termination and compromise agreements, confidentiality agreements, and codes of conduct. Outside of employment, Spring is a prolific sports law practitioner, with a particular emphasis on advising high-profile rugby clients.