Gamekeeper paid €43k for unfair dismissal

This story has been subject to the following update on February 3, 2017: Following an appeal by Henry Gwyn-Jones the findings of the Employment Appeals Tribunal were overturned at Dungarvan Circuit Court on 17 December 2013.

Original story: The owner of one of the biggest country houses in Cork has been ordered to pay a former employee more than €43,000 in compensation for unfair dismissal from his job.

The Employment Appeals Tribunal had ordered Henry Gwyn-Jones, the owner of Ballynatray House outside Youghal, Co Cork, to pay his former head gamekeeper, John Dawson, a total of €43,184 for wrongfully making him redundant.