Sauna owner dismissed by hotel awarded €25k

A men’s sauna club owner has been awarded €25,000 after he was unfairly dismissed from his job at a Co Cork hotel.

Eamon Ryan, 44, from Burnscove, Kishykirk, Co Limerick, claimed he was fired from his position as leisure manager at the Charleville Park Hotel because of a “homophobic reaction” to his other business.

During an Employment Appeals Tribunal hearing in Limerick earlier this year, Mr Ryan insisted he was open and honest about the sauna club in Shannon and said he was a director of the business but did not work there.