Workplace Relations Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\nCorrigan, who worked in a legal role at the internet domain registry company, alleges in a complaint under the Unfair Dismissals Act 2014 that he was unfairly sacked in March 2025 because he turned whistleblower the year before.<\/p>\n
No details of what was claimed by Corrigan in this alleged protected disclosure were discussed at a preliminary hearing on Monday.<\/p>\n
The hearing dealt with legal argument on which of a series of statutory complaints raised under the Unfair Dismissals Act, the Payment of Wages Act and the Employment Equality Act by Corrigan were properly before the commission.<\/p>\n
Corrigan said he raised a protected disclosure on June 19th, 2024, and was placed on a performance improvement plan, or \u201cPIP\u201d, on September 10th that year.<\/p>\n
He said a disciplinary process was initiated against him the day after the PIP started.<\/p>\n
Having taken a period of sick leave that winter, he said the company failed to discharge salary payments in a period between November 2024 and February 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cDecember [2024], that was pure vindictiveness,\u201d he said. He said that the company paid him \u201cnothing\u201d that month and put him under \u201cextreme pressure … at the most expensive time of year\u201d.<\/p>\n
Owen Keany, for the firm, instructed by Sarah Faulkner of Arthur Cox , said Corrigan had made \u201ca series of assertions about alleged wrongdoing on the part of my client\u201d that were \u201ccomplete fantasy\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said the company\u2019s actions in relation to non-payment of sick pay were \u201cperfectly lawful steps\u201d taken in what he said were circumstances of \u201cstaggering disengagement in the approach adopted by Mr Corrigan\u201d.<\/p>\n
Keany said that since Corrigan had referred his complaints in September 2025, the alleged non-payment of wages complained of was now beyond the normal six-month time limit for such a complaint.<\/p>\n
Corrigan argued that the pay matters were a live issue at the time he was dismissed, though adjudication officer Brian Dalton said that \u201con face value\u201d the pay complaints matters seemed to be out of time. <\/p>\n
He also said the law precluded Corrigan pursuing a parallel complaint of discriminatory dismissal under the Employment Equality Act at the same time as alleging a breach of the Unfair Dismissals Act.<\/p>\n
Adjudication officer Brian Dalton said he would arrange for two full days to be set aside to hear evidence on the dispute and adjourned the matter.<\/p>\n
Corrigan was excluded following the first count in May\u2019s poll, having secured 30 first-preference votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former byelection candidate\u2019s claims of wrongdoing at his old job are \u201ccomplete fantasy\u201d, a lawyer for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,6465],"class_list":["post-610747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-workplace-relations-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610747","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=610747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}