Publishers seek to appeal EAT ruling on employee

Post Publications Limited, publishers of the Sunday Business Post, are seeking to appeal a decision of the Employment Appeals Tribunal that former treasurer Kieran Moloney was an employee of theirs.

The EAT made its decision after having heard a preliminary issue on whether Moloney was employed by Post Publications, Harcourt Street, Dublin; Thomas Crosbie Holdings, or Thomas Crosbie Printers (in liquidation), both of City Quarter, Lapp’s Quay, Cork.

A full appeal on the preliminary finding was to have gone ahead yesterday in the Circuit Civil Court, but barrister Patrick O’Reilly challenged the jurisdiction of the court to hear the matter.