Circulation of offensive emails ‘was endemic’

THE circulation and distribution of offensive and inappropriate emails between junior staff and their superiors was “endemic” within a division of the Bank of Ireland, an Employment Appeals Tribunal has heard.

Two former employees of the ICS Building Society — part of the Bank of Ireland Group — claimed there was a culture of exchanging such emails which the bank’s own lawyers had branded as “extreme and revolting porn”.

They also described the bank’s investigation into the exchange of such emails as “fundamentally flawed”.