{"id":24259,"date":"2025-09-16T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24259\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:06:08","slug":"worker-who-said-he-locked-horns-with-colleague-over-rebel-music-and-being-called-an-english-bd-loses-challenge-over-sacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24259\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker who said he \u2018locked horns\u2019 with colleague over rebel music and being called an \u2018English b*****d\u2019 loses challenge over sacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Mr Seaton told the WRC he felt \u201ctotally threatened\u201d and \u201cprovoked\u201d, claiming his colleague \u201chad a hammer in his hand and was playing rebel music\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5baf6f5f-2647-4771-bc8f-8c1b6f21ff3f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A worker who said he only \u201clocked horns\u201d with a colleague because he was provoked by rebel music and being called an \u201cEnglish b*****d\u201d has lost a challenge over his sacking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Management at Breffni Air Ireland Unlimited told the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) that it decided to dismiss the worker, Timothy Seaton, after they said he \u201chead-butted\u201d another worker on 7 March, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Seaton told the WRC he felt \u201ctotally threatened\u201d and \u201cprovoked\u201d, claiming his colleague \u201chad a hammer in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-24259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}