Cian O'Carroll, B.SC., Solicitor

Cian O'Carroll is a specialist medical negligence solicitor and an leading expert in Personal Injury law. Cian completed a science degree before studying law and was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in Ireland in 1996.

Cian O'Carroll Solicitors was founded in 2010 and now specialises  exclusively in medical negligence law. It attracts clients from right across the country due to the specialised nature of its medical negligence solicitors and litigation. 

 With over 25 years experience exclusively in litigation and a reputation for taking on the tough cases and winning them, the firm has successfully represented clients in many leading cases including that of CervicalCheck campaigners Vicky Phelan, Emma Mhic Mhathuna, Ruth & Paul Morrissey, Patricia & Damien Carrick. We also successfully represented Olive Fahey in the Patient 'A' breast cancer misdiagnosis scandal, and the Brian Rossiter death in garda custody series of cases.  We successfully brought the first ever birth injury related Autism case in Ireland in 2019 and regularly fight the hard cases that make law.  For more details of our work, visit our News & Blog section or the ​Radio & Podcasts section. 

Serving clients nationwide from
our offices in Cashel, Co. Tipperary.

Cian O'Carroll Solicitors is a leading Irish law firm specialising in complex Medical Negligence and serious Personal Injury cases*.

Key practice areas of expertise are cancer misdiagnosis, gynaecological surgery injuries and birth related injuries to both mother and baby. 

The firm is recognised by peers as a leader in the provision of legal representation in the CervicalCheck scandal, the Depuy ASR defective hip implant scandal and in litigation requiring urgent or emergency case progression due to the poor health of the injured party. 

Our culture is one of respect to our clients who honour us by placing their legal business and their trust with us. We show that respect by listening to and understanding their queries and needs. We then act on that by using our skills and experience as a team, together with those of the excellent barristers we work with to investigate, and if appropriate, to litigate in order to prove and vindicate the wrong and harm our client has suffered through the wrongful acts or omissions of another. 

​Cian O'Carroll Solicitors has extensive experience of fatal injury cases, traumatic brain injury cases and cases involving prenatal and perinatal injury to babies such as cerebral palsy, Erb's Palsy and shoulder dystocia.

We have have brought many cases for mothers who have suffered devastating injuries due to perineral tears that were either caused by poor care during labour or were not properly identified or repaired. 

​Over recent years, the firm and its medical negligence solicitors have developed a particular Expertise in high value cancer misdiagnosis litigation, working closely with a team of medical experts in the United Kingdom and the United States to assess such cases quickly and cost-effectively before prosecuting the cases for our clients.