Couple claim they lost €45,000 after unfair dismissal

A husband and wife claim they lost just over €45,000 after their unfair dismissal by the publishers of a free newspaper which closed last year.

Katie Mythen-Lynch, the former editor of The Cork News freesheet, and her husband, Jonathon Lynch, the former production manager, outlined the details at an Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) hearing in Cork yesterday as they brought separate appeals under the Unfair Dismissals Act and the Terms of Employment and Information Act against a Rights Commissioner’s rulings in their cases against Cork News and Media Ltd.

The company ceased publishing last June and was placed in liquidation. The liquidator was represented at the hearing and a legal representative for the company said she was attending as a courtesy to the tribunal but had no instructions in the matter. The couple’s cases went uncontested.