December 2025
Aer Lingus pilot said he delayed safety report for fear of ‘retribution’ from senior staff, tribunal hears.
Mr McCabe agreed when questioned by his barrister, David Byrnes, who appeared instructed by Setanta Solicitors, that there was “no love lost” between himself and Capt Wynne.
Read more‘A direct attack on my wife, my family, my career and my reputation’
Aer Lingus pilot tells Workplace Relations Commission that demotion over ‘non-event’ was intentionally ‘humiliating’
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/2025/12/04/a-direct-attack-on-my-wife-my-family-my-career-and-my-reputation/November 2025
Nolan Transport family oppose €20m damages claim over stalled Nemo Rangers site development
October 2025
A senior manager at Aer Lingus has told a tribunal she feared that a pilot-turned-whistleblower would experience the “Barbra Streisand effect” if an injunction was sought to stop him posting online about his dispute with the airline.
The head of safety at Aer Lingus has told a tribunal an engine repair report posted online by a whistleblower pilot in the wake of an alleged toxic fume leak on a jet was “not intended for public consumption”.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/10/03/jet-repair-report-posted-online-not-intended-for-public-says-aer-lingus-safety-chief/Residents living beside proposed development claim submissions to Dublin council ‘selectively redacted’.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2025/10/08/residents-living-beside-proposed-development-claim-submissions-to-dublin-council-selectively-redacted/Nobody came to our door to tell us’: Ballymun grandmother discovers plan to demolish home
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2025/10/08/nobody-came-to-our-door-to-tell-us-ballymun-grandmother-discovers-plan-to-demolish-home/Central Bank manager fired investigator who complained to HR about him, WRC told
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/10/10/central-bank-manager-fired-investigator-who-complained-to-hr-about-him-wrc-told/August 2025
WRC awards €50,000 to new mum denied part-time hours. A security firm which refused to let a new mother come back to work on part-time hours after having her first baby has been ordered to pay her €50,000 in compensation for discrimination.
July 2025
RTÉ has failed to have employment rights claims by the former on-set photographer for Fair City thrown out, after the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruled, for the first time, that a supposed freelancer at the national broadcaster was actually an employee.
May 2025
An executive chef at Avoca’s Monkstown restaurant in south Dublin was offered a chef role in China by his employer during the pandemic before being unfairly dismissed through redundancy.
At the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), adjudicator Davnet O’Driscoll has ordered Avoca Handweavers Shops Limited to pay Mark McGillycuddy €57,166 for his unfair dismissal in November 2020.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-41632258.html
April 2025
The cemetery, Wolfe Tone Private Lawn Cemetery near the town of Sallins, Co Kildare are charging up to €12,500 for a premium burial plot.
A spokesperson for Wolfe Tone Private Lawn Cemetery said: “This tranquil cemetery provides a peaceful and reflective environment where families can honour their departed members amidst the historical significance of Wolfe Tone’s burial tomb. An administer of the cemetery and a representative of Setanta Solicitors said: “It is a development that is needed for the locality. The population in Bodenstown continues to grow and with that comes a need for services such as a graveyard.”
March 2025
The publisher of IrishCentral.com has been ordered to pay €12,000 to a long-standing employee it made redundant after stopping press on magazines aimed at the Irish diaspora due to falling readership.
The employee, Sinead Behan, won the sum on foot of a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 against Irish Studio Media Publishing Limited.
January 2025
Tesco has been ordered to pay €40,000 after an “utterly bizarre and disingenuous” move to present an occupational health consultant’s report as a “medical opinion” when it dismissed a supermarket worker on long-term sick leave.
November 2024
A pregnant bar supervisor who was faced with unproven and previously unmentioned allegations of sexual misconduct against a male colleague after she was dismissed by her employer has won €18,000 for discrimination.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/1031/1478442-pregnant-bar-worker-awarded-18-000-at-wrc/
October 2024
A recruiter who took “a lot of offence” to a senior colleague at his firm allegedly approaching his wife after getting drunk at a leaving party and pulling her hair has claimed he was sacked within a month of complaining about it as an act of penalisation.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/1015/1475532-recruiter-case-at-wrc/
September 2024
A marketing executive who said he “lost friends” for taking a workplace rights case against the operator of the Bingo Loco stage show has won €5,400 for unfair dismissal.
August 2024
A senior IT worker whose role was filled while he was absent due to a cancer diagnosis has been awarded €50,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission.
July 2024
It has been alleged that a bus company’s managers fired a driver because he made complaints about “seriously unsafe” vehicles before attempting to carry out a “self-styled deportation” on the migrant worker by booking him a flight home and trying to escort him to the airport.
May 2024
A major private coach operator has been accused of having “defective and dangerous public vehicles” by a lawyer acting for a whistleblower who claims he was penalised for raising his concerns.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0514/1449118-coach-operator-case-at-wrc/
April 2024
A well-known Dublin hotel has been ordered to pay a former restaurant manager €9,000 over its failure to call him back to work after the business reopened following its closure at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fintech entrepreneur Roy Zakka was accused of making “derogatory remarks about Irish people” by a former senior employee who has now won more than €90,000 in back pay and compensation for unfair dismissal.
December 2023
A banking professional who moonlighted for nearly 30 years “pulling pints” at a Dublin pub has been awarded €25,000 for the “heartless” and “completely unlawful” way he was dismissed by the family he had first come to work for in the 1980s.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/12/21/banker-moonlighting-as-barman-for-decades-awarded-25000-at-wrc/October 2023
A banking professional, who moonlighted for nearly three decades “pulling pints” at a Dublin pub, was unfairly sacked and denied severance pay because the bar owners “just didn’t want to pay him” his redundancy entitlements, his solicitor has alleged.
A firefighter who earlier this year was acquitted of drugs offences has resolved his High Court action aimed at preventing his employer from continuing internal disciplinary proceedings against him.
September 2023
The Irish Athletic Boxing Association has settled an employment rights dispute with its former high-performance director Bernard Dunne.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/boxing/2023/0913/1405103-iaba-settle-employment-dispute-with-bernard-dunne/
June 2023
A dispute involving a software company whose investors include U2 drummer Larry Mullen and British comedian John Bishop has been resolved, the Commercial Court was told.
May 2023
A Limerick-based transport firm has been ordered to pay €109,040 to 11 drivers and helpers for their mass unfair dismissal concerning alleged “unscheduled and undocumented” alcohol deliveries to a Dublin pub.
The Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) is in “negotiations” with its former high-performance director Bernard Dunne over an employment rights claim he has lodged at the Workplace Relations Commission, the tribunal has been told.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/boxing/2023/0530/1386503-dunne-in-negotiations-with-iaba-over-dispute/
