Ex-pharma firm chief gets €295k over sacking

THE former head of a Dublin-based pharmaceutical company has been awarded almost €300,000 for wrongful dismissal — one of the largest awards ever made by the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

Eurodrug, a pharmaceutical wholesale firm based in Santry was ordered to pay €295,000 compensation to its former managing director, Michael Fitzpatrick, over the manner in which it fired him in 2009.

Mr Fitzpatrick of Offington Park, Sutton, established Eurodrug in 2004 before selling it to its current British parent in February 2006, although he agreed to remain on as managing director.