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An employer told a senior technician to keep working after the man told him that he was experiencing chest-pain and may be having a heart attack, the Wordplace Relations Commission (WRC) has heard.
Man told to ‘keep working’ through heart episode awarded €35,000

An employer told a senior technician to keep working after the man told him that he was experiencing chest-pain and may be having a heart attack, the (...)

A live-in caretaker made homeless when he was sacked has been awarded €40,440

A live-in caretaker at a residential facility for homeless people was rendered homeless himself after he was unfairly dismissed by a property manageme(...)

According to a cinema representative at a hearing into the case where a family was asked to move seats, the father ‘became loud and abusive and demanded a refund, including for part-consumed food’.
Family who refused to move cinema seats loses discrimination case

Gardaí were called to a morning screening of the Disney children’s film Finding Dory when it had to be abandoned after a family refused to move from p(...)

Art teacher sacked for relationship with patient unfairly dismissed

A health provider sacked an art teacher after it learned he was having an intimate relationship with a mental health patient at the facility where he (...)

A bookkeeper who was ‘retired’ by her employer on reaching the age of 66 has been awarded €12,000 in an age discrimination case she took against a family run retail business. Image: iStock
Bookkeeper ‘retired’ by firm at 66 awarded €12,000

A bookkeeper who was “retired” by her employer on reaching the age of 66 has been awarded €12,000 in an age discrimination case she took against a fam(...)

Pick of the summer streams
The best new films and TV on Netflix and Amazon this summer

Summertime is traditionally a wasteland for original programming, with all the best new shows stored up for winter hibernation. Summer is usually rese(...)

The Workplace Relations Commission was told it is not uncommon for one spouse to challenge a purchase undertaken by the other. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA Wire
Wife fails in discrimination case against car dealership

A woman’s claim that she was unlawfully discriminated against by a car dealership after it cancelled a car purchase following the intervention of her (...)

Kate Colleary and journalist Olivia O’Leary at the funeral of Gordon Colleary, founder of USIT, in St Joseph’s Parish Church, Glasthule, Dublin. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times.
‘Wonderful life’ of Gordon Colleary recalled at his funeral

American Catholic mystic Thomas Merton was quoted at the funeral of Gordon Colleary (73) whose funeral Mass took place at St Joseph’s church in Dublin(...)