Demotion left accountant with just 30 minutes work to do per day

An accountant at Irish Rail was taking home €50,000 a year for little more than half an hour’s work a day after having been demoted from office management, a court has heard.

Counsel Stephen O’Sullivan told Judge Francis Comerford that Tracy Lynch had gone from being in charge of seven staff to a desk in a corridor with practically nothing to do.

“Staring at the clock is the most taxing kind of work,” she had told the court.