An accountant who was unfairly dismissed from his job with the Irish Coursing Club has been awarded compensation of €35,000.

A former accountant with the Irish Coursing Club submitted “fictitious” mileage expenses worth €3,800 a year after striking an agreement with his former boss and the club’s former auditors, a tribunal has heard.

THE taxpayer was hit with another massive Bord na gCon pay-out yesterday after a senior executive with the company settled for a near €1 million package after agreeing to withdraw a bullying action against the former Greyhound Board boss Paschal Taggart and two others.