{"id":381259,"date":"2026-04-04T07:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381259\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:15:12","slug":"skerries-golf-club-wins-unfair-dismissal-claim-despite-honorary-secretary-trying-to-swear-oath-on-work-diary-instead-of-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/381259\/","title":{"rendered":"Skerries Golf Club wins unfair dismissal claim despite honorary secretary trying to swear oath on work diary instead of bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4388d1cb-19e6-4f4d-9930-6e7721f926a2.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)\">Skerries Golf Club has successfully fended off an unfair dismissal claim despite a finding that its honorary secretary somewhat \u201cundermined the credibility\u201d of his testimony by trying to swear an oath on his work diary instead of the Holy Bible.<\/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)\">During the hearing, witness Donnacha Neary, a well-known entrepreneur in the construction trade, was warned by an adjudicator about the risk of being prosecuted for perjury and told: \u201cI expect and demand the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stock image Skerries Golf Club has successfully fended off an unfair dismissal claim despite a finding that its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-381259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381259","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=381259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}