Teacher cannot take case for unfair dismissal

A TEACHER with one of the country’s best-known schools has been told he cannot take an unfair dismissal case before the Employment Appeals Tribunal despite being fired from his role as a senior house master.

The EAT ruled yesterday that it was not legally entitled to hear a claim for unfair dismissal being taken by Ed O’Farrell, a former assistant head of boarding at Blackrock College, Dublin.

Kevin D’Arcy, counsel for Mr O’Farrell, said his client had been separately engaged by Blackrock College, in addition to his teaching post, as a house master in 2001 which involved the supervision of the school’s boarding students.