{"id":629396,"date":"2026-09-19T08:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629396\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:50:13","slug":"former-inland-fisheries-bosss-case-adjourned-at-wrc-after-lawyers-come-off-record-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629396\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Inland Fisheries boss\u2019s case adjourned at WRC after lawyers come off record \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A case brought by a former chief executive of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/inland-fisheries-ireland\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/inland-fisheries-ireland\/\">Inland Fisheries Ireland<\/a> (IFI) against the organisation at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/workplace-relations-commission\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/workplace-relations-commission\/\">Workplace Relations Commission<\/a> (WRC) was adjourned on Friday after he said his legal team had come off record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Francis O\u2019Donnell told adjudication officer Michael MacNamee he would like time to seek further legal advice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On the seventh day of hearings in the case, a former chairwoman of the IFI board, Prof Frances Lucy, was scheduled to give evidence on behalf of O\u2019Donnell. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">O\u2019Donnell is claiming in his WRC case that he was unfairly dismissed by IFI and was penalised after making protected disclosures. This is denied by the organisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">IFI is a State organisation with responsibility to protect, manage and conserve Ireland\u2019s inland fisheries and sea-angling resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The WRC has heard previously that the IFI terminated O\u2019Donnell\u2019s position as chief executive in June 2025, but paid up his contract until its expiry date last November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The case is listed at present to be heard on another seven days in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A case brought by a former chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) against the organisation at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,10914,60,112,6465],"class_list":["post-629396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-inland-fisheries-ireland","tag-ireland","tag-sports","tag-workplace-relations-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629396","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=629396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}