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Stephen Bourke

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Multimedia Journalist at Freelance

Court Reporter at Courts News Ireland

multimedia journalist / court reporter / marginally profitable life-form clinging to damp rock

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  • Stud farm ordered to compensate stable staff fired after opposing horses being put down

    2 days ago | irishtimes.com | Stephen Bourke

    Two stable hands fired by a stud farm after they got into a row with a manager over a plan to euthanise two horses have won four months’ wages each for unfair dismissal. Forenaghts Stud Farm Ltd in Naas, Co Kildare, has been ordered by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to pay more than €18,000 to Rebecca Conlon and her daughter Rachel O’Reilly, who were both dismissed in June 2023.

  • Two stable hands fired by well-known stud farm after row over plan to euthanise horses win €18,000 for unfair dismissal

    2 days ago | independent.ie | Stephen Bourke

    Two stable hands fired by well-known stud farm after row over plan to euthanise horses win €18,000 for unfair dismissalTwo stable hands fired by a well-known stud farm after they got into a row with a manager over a plan to euthanise two horses have won four months’ wages each for unfair dismissal.

  • Pharmacist claims ex-TD Kate O’Connell and husband were working him ‘to death’

    3 days ago | independent.ie | Stephen Bourke

    Marwan Al Rahbi alleges that the former Fine Gael TD’s husband ‘screamed’ at him, ‘say Kate is your boss’A pharmacist who claims he was forced out of a €112,000-a-year job because former TD Kate O’Connell and her husband were working him "to death" has denied raising his voice and becoming "aggressive" when she pulled him up on using his phone at work.

  • Emails to managers rather than union membership reason for butcher’s dismissal, WRC finds

    4 days ago | irishtimes.com | Stephen Bourke

    A tribunal has rejected a butcher’s claim that he was sacked for being a member of Siptu – concluding that his emails accusing its managers of dishonesty and unethical behaviour were the main reason he lost his job. In a complaint under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 against Tipperary Sustainable Food Company, trading as James Whelan Butchers, the worker, Daniel Holland, wrote that he had been told the reason for his dismissal was “misalignment”.

  • Butcher's claim he was sacked for union membership gets the chop

    4 days ago | courtsnewsireland.ie | Stephen Bourke

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Stephen Bourke
Stephen Bourke @AnBurcach
8 May 25

RT @wereontheditch: Silkway Airlines illegally transported missile launchers for Israel Defense Forces (IDF) F-35 fighter jets through Iris…

Stephen Bourke
Stephen Bourke @AnBurcach
7 May 25

I also did this at work today. And yesterday. And all last week.

Gabija Gataveckaitė
Gabija Gataveckaitė @gataveckaite

All female Sinn Féin TDs and Senators wearing shorts today in Leinster House in solidarity with camogie players who have said they want a choice between wearing skorts or shorts. https://t.co/4e5ur7ixXR

Stephen Bourke
Stephen Bourke @AnBurcach
7 May 25

WRC rejects penalisation claims by veteran SIPTU official https://t.co/GqT7LoTR6j via @rte