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Aisling Maher


Aisling joined Cantillons in 2015 having graduated with an Honours Bachelor in Civil Law (International) Degree from University College Cork. As part of this degree Aisling spent a year studying at Brooklyn Law School in New York where she gained an indelible insight into American legal principles, practice and procedure.

Prior to completing her traineeship with Cantillons, Aisling worked with a private client Immigration Law Firm in New York. Thereafter, she joined a large Corporate Law Firm in Dublin where she gained invaluable experience working in the EU, Competition and Public Procurement Department and the Employment Department working on both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Aisling previously worked in our General Litigation Department and was involved in a wide variety of cases including personal injury claims, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, contract disputes, employment disputes, claims against local authorities and claims against the HSE.

Aisling is currently working in our Medical Negligence Litigation Department and has experience working on various cases involving birth injuries, cancer misdiagnosis, surgical errors and fatal claims.

Qualifications

Honours Bachelor of Civil Law (International) Degree
Completed Law Society Professional Practice Courses at Blackhall Place, Dublin

Personal

In her free time Aisling likes to travel the world.

Aisling can be contacted at: aisling.maher@cantillons.com

Aisling's Success Stories


Significant Settlement Of Case For Man with Intellectual Disabilities left with catastrophic injuries as a consequence of a delay in diagnosing his Cauda Equina Syndrome (“CES”)


Aisling Maher, assisted by Mags O’Shea, recently achieved a significant out-of-court settlement for a 73-year-old man with intellectual disabilities, Eamon O’Sullivan. In short, in the afternoon of the 30th December 2021, Eamon was referred to the A&E department of University Hospital Galway by his General Practitioner to rule out CES. He presented there at 18.04 […]

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Significant Settlement of Case for Woman who lost the function of her right dominant upper limb due to a substandard delay in treating and diagnosing her metastatic disease


Aisling Maher, assisted by Mags O’Shea, recently achieved a significant out-of-court settlement for a lovely woman in respect of a substandard delay in diagnosing and treating her right axillary/brachial plexus metastatic HER2 positive breast cancer at Cork University Hospital (“CUH”), from approximately April 2018 to February 2019 (when the diagnosis was made).  During the aforementioned […]

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Substantial Medical Negligence Settlement for retention of swab post-surgery


Aisling Maher, assisted by Margaret O’Shea of the Medical Negligence team at Cantillons achieved a substantial settlement for a gentleman who became acutely unwell after it was discovered that a swab had left been behind in his abdomen post-operatively for 4 months, which had eroded into his small bowel, necessitating open surgery to remove same, […]

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Substantial Out Of Court Settlement For Woman who lost vision


Aisling Maher and Mags O’Shea in Medical Negligence Team were pleased to achieve a significant out of court settlement for a woman who sadly lost her vision. Our client had a long-standing diagnosis of Glaucoma; which typically is a life-long disease, and which requires regular monitoring of intraocular pressures, optic disc appearances and visual field […]

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Substantial Out Of Court Settlement For Woman following Negligent Misreading Of Cervical Smear


Aisling Maher and the Medical Negligence Team were pleased to achieve a significant settlement recently for a woman who developed invasive cervical cancer as a result of the negligent misreporting of her cervical smear. Experts retained by Cantillons concluded that if her cervical smear had been reported correctly by the Defendant laboratory as showing high […]

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Substantial Out Of Court Settlements For Husband and Wife following Negligent Misreading Of Cervical Smear


Aisling Maher and the Medical Negligence Team were pleased to achieve significant settlements recently for a husband and wife, the latter who developed cervical cancer as a result of the negligent misreporting of her cervical smear.  Experts retained by Cantillons concluded that if her cervical smear had been reported correctly by the Defendants as showing […]

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Significant out-of-court settlement achieved by Cantillons Solicitors arising from the delayed diagnosis and treatment of a bowel obstruction


Aisling Maher and Orla Kelly of the Medical Negligence acted on behalf of a lady who attended the Defendant Hospital, when she was 36 weeks pregnant with twins, complaining of tenderness in the right side of her abdomen, vomiting, severe pain in her abdomen, back and pelvis and constipation. No clear diagnosis was reached and […]

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Significant Settlement for delayed diagnosis and treatment of stroke


Aisling Maher, Orla Kelly and Angela O’Donovan of the Medical Negligence team at Cantillons Solicitors acted for a gentleman who suffered life-changing injuries following the Defendant’s failure to recognise, diagnose and treat his acute symptoms of stroke on a timely basis. Consequently, he endured a prolonged hospital admission and suffers from ongoing limitations to which […]

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