MD’s ex who lost job to get €7.5k

The managing director of a Cork courier firm must pay out €7,500 to his former partner and mother of their grown-up daughter in an unfair dismissal case.

The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) found that the dismissal of Margaret O’Riordan by Prompto Despatch Ltd was procedurally unfair.

Ms O’Riordan was in a personal relationship with the MD and principal shareholder of the firm — who is not named in the report — for over 20 years.