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As the European base for the world’s largest technology, social media and AI companies, Ireland is often the jurisdiction where reputational threats, privacy breaches, disinformation and unlawful online content can be challenged most directly.
From Dublin, clients can move faster and more effectively against threats that cross borders, platforms and legal regimes. They have direct access to Irish and EU legal remedies, and to a team positioned close to the global technology platforms that shape reputations, influence public narratives and control the spread of online information.
We work with clients to identify anonymous wrongdoers, compel disclosure, remove unlawful or inaccurate content, and enforce platforms’ terms and policies. We take action against major platforms where the harm is being hosted, amplified or monetised, and where they fail to comply with their legal obligations.
Schillings Ireland is at the forefront of tackling digital harms through the Irish courts. Our work includes the first identification order against X, formerly Twitter, in the Circuit Court under Ireland’s new defamation legislation, requiring the platform to disclose the identity of anonymous accounts responsible for defamatory content.
Whether the threat is an anonymous attack, smear campaign, disinformation, fake advertising, deepfake or privacy breach, the objective is the same: to stop the harm, identify those responsible, regain control of the narrative and strengthen the client’s position for what comes next.
When a dispute demands more than a legal answer, clients can draw on one team across law, intelligence and investigations, strategic communications, diplomacy and security, with Dublin connected into Schillings’ wider international network.
Our Ireland team, led by Ben Hobbs, Phil Hartley, Viv O’Connor-Jemmett and John Curtin, advises entrepreneurs, business leaders, family offices, public figures and organisations facing reputation, privacy, security and online challenges in Ireland, across the EU and internationally.
