Debt Recovery Solicitors — Waterford

Demand, judgment and enforcement — and honest advice about which debts are worth pursuing.

For creditors in Waterford and the south-east the firm has an office at 2 Rose Inn Street in Kilkenny, a short drive away — though most debt recovery work is documentary and is handled by telephone, email and video without anyone needing to travel.

Owner-Managed Creditors, and the Ledger Nobody Reviews

A large share of south-east businesses are owner-managed, and they tend to share a pattern: a handful of overdue accounts carried for a long time because chasing them is unpleasant and nobody is quite sure what the alternative costs. The result is a ledger where some debts have quietly gone past six years, some debtors have long since stopped trading, and the two or three that are genuinely worth pursuing have been treated no differently from the rest. The single most useful exercise for a business in that position is a review rather than a campaign: sort the ledger by whether the debt is in time, whether the debtor still exists and appears to have anything, and whether the sum justifies the cost. Most ledgers reduce to a much smaller list of debts genuinely worth acting on — and acting on those properly is worth more than pursuing all of them badly.

The Kilkenny Office, and What It Is Useful For

Sitting down together suits some conversations better than others. Going through a ledger, working out which accounts are live and which are not, reviewing terms of trade to see whether there is a retention of title clause or a guarantee that has been forgotten — those are often easier across a table with the papers spread out, and the Kilkenny office at 2 Rose Inn Street is straightforward to reach from Waterford, Carlow, Tipperary and the surrounding area. Everything else is documentary and remote: establishing the limitation position, checking a company’s filings and registered charges, framing a demand, deciding which enforcement route matches what the debtor has. Note also that venue for any proceedings commonly follows the debtor rather than the creditor, so where proceedings physically issue depends on where the debtor is rather than on where you or your solicitor sit.

Two Free Tools Before You Call

The Debt Limitation Checker walks the time-limit questions and flags where a debt may be statute-barred. The Recovery Route Mapper shows the likely court, procedure and enforcement options — and flags where the honest answer is not to issue at all. Both run entirely on your device; nothing is stored or sent.

Worth Pursuing, or Not?

The amount, when it fell due, whether anything restarted the clock, the debtor's correct legal name and what you know about their means. Those five answers shape everything.

Call 01 5827148

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Debt Recovery in Waterford - FAQs

2 Rose Inn Street, Kilkenny, R95 W58D, a short drive from Waterford city, open Monday to Friday 9:00 to 5:30. The Dublin office is The Ormond Building, 31–36 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 7. All enquiries go through the Dublin number, 01 5827148, or richardoshea@marymolloysolicitors.com.

General information, not legal advice. This website contains general information about Irish law on debt recovery and enforcement. It is not legal advice and does not create a solicitor—client relationship. Every debt turns on its own facts — the documents, the dates, the parties and the debtor’s circumstances — and advice on yours requires a consultation. Statutory thresholds and figures referred to on this site are subject to change and should be confirmed before any step is taken.

A law firm, not a debt collection agency. Mary Molloy Solicitors provides legal advice and representation. It does not operate as a debt collection agency and does not conduct collection campaigns. Fees are agreed in writing with the client at the outset and are never calculated as a percentage or proportion of any sum recovered. In contentious business, a solicitor may not calculate fees or other charges as a percentage or proportion of any award or settlement.

No outcome is promised. Nothing on this site states or implies that any debt will be recovered, that any asset will be found, that any enforcement step will succeed, or that any claim will succeed. Recovery depends substantially on the debtor’s means, which are frequently unknown at the outset.

How payment may be demanded is regulated. Section 11 of the Consumer Credit Act 1995 makes it an offence to make a demand for payment by means calculated to cause alarm, distress or humiliation, or falsely to represent that legal proceedings have been or will be issued. Nothing on this site should be read as encouraging any such conduct. Mortgage arrears on a principal private residence are dealt with under a separate regulatory framework and are outside the scope of this site.

If you are the person being pursued. Free, confidential and independent money advice is available in Ireland from MABS, the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, and through the Abhaile scheme for people in mortgage arrears. You do not have to engage a solicitor to get help, and taking advice early generally improves the options available. This firm advises debtors in matters separate from those in which it acts for a creditor, and never both sides of the same debt — conflicts are checked before any substantive discussion.

Tax. Nothing on this website is tax advice. Questions about VAT on recovered sums, bad debt relief or the treatment of write-offs belong with your accountant or tax adviser and with Revenue’s own guidance.