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Seán McCárthaigh

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Sep 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Seán McCárthaigh

    Healthcare provider ordered to compensate woman over racial discrimination - Privacy Policy - Western People (opens the original)

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    A well-known private healthcare provider has been ordered to pay combined compensation of €12,000 to an elderly Pakistani woman and her daughter who were racially discriminated against during a visit to a clinic for MRI scans. The Workplace Relations Commission ruled that Affidea Diagnostics Ireland Limited discriminated against Mehr un Nisa (75) and her daughter, Shereen Gul – who is a GP – during a visit to the company’s clinic in Dundrum on November 4th, 2023, in breach of the Equal Status Ac

  2. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Seán McCárthaigh

    Father of teenager who died from meningitis calls for catch-up vaccination programme - Privacy Policy - Western People (opens the original)

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    An inquest has heard calls from the father of a young girl who died from bacterial meningitis last year for a catch-up programme to be made available to vaccinate Irish teenagers against the life-threatening infection. However, the inquest into the death of Emily Ellen Culhane (16) from The Birches, Lower Boley, Abbeyleix, Co Laois who died from a strain of meningococcal B at Beaumont Hospital on January 5, 2025 heard such a measure had already been ruled out earlier this year. The National Immu

  3. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Seán McCárthaigh

    High Court intervenes in bitter Cork City Council row over finance director's role - Privacy Policy - Western People (opens the original)

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    The High Court has directed that Cork City Council should not go ahead with assigning any of the current duties of its finance director to any other employee following a bitter row with its chief executive against a background of the council’s worsening financial position. Judge Micheál O’Connell granted an application by the finance director, John Hallahan, for an injunction against the council over transferring his duties like overseeing its annual budget to its newly appointed head of cost tr

  4. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Seán McCárthaigh

    Company hit with €313,400 tax bill after failing to abide by support scheme during Covid-19 - Privacy Policy - Western People (opens the original)

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    A company has been hit with a €313,400 tax bill after losing an appeal against a Revenue assessment that it had failed to abide by the terms of a scheme introduced to provide financial support to businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Tax Appeals Commission ruled that the unnamed firm could not prove it had carried out monthly compliance checks as required by the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme to demonstrate that it had suffered a downturn in turnover of 30 per cent or more to be eligible

  5. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Seán McCárthaigh

    Tesco ordered to pay €30,000 to manager ‘demoted’ to stacking shelves - Privacy Policy - Western People (opens the original)

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    Tesco has been ordered to pay €30,000 to a long-serving assistant manager of a Cavan supermarket who was effectively demoted from running a stockroom to packing shelves after it took over a store previously run by SuperValu. The Workplace Relations Commission ruled that Tesco Ireland breached EU employment legislation when the role of assistant manager, John Walsh, who worked at McEvoy’s SuperValu supermarket in Virginia, Co Cavan for 27 years, was fundamentally changed after it took over the st

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