Adjudicator finds decision to dismiss Galway Bay FM veteran broadcaster Neil Molloy ‘not unfair’ although finding of gross misconduct was ‘excessive’
Adjudicator finds decision to dismiss Galway Bay FM veteran broadcaster Neil Molloy ‘not unfair’ although finding of gross misconduct deemed ‘excessive’The former host of Galway Bay FM’s breakfast show, who was sacked last year over what was termed a “verbal assault” on the radio station’s chief executive, has lost a claim for unfair dismissal at the Workplace Relations Commission .
The WRC heard that the initial incident happened after the chief executive took away Mr Molloy’s company fuel card, and expressed reservations when Mr Molloy asked whether he was allowed to take up outside work. Siptu official Marie O’Connor submitted that Mr O’Halloran “treated in a very disrespectful manner from the outset of the meeting when he took over as CEO”.
That was because Mr Molloy had learned on July 5th that there were ads running on social media promoting the ‘Mollie in the Morning’ show which featured only his co-presenter, it was submitted. Mr Molloy was put back in the ads after his union wrote to the station, the tribunal was told. Peter Allen, the company chairman to whom Mr Molloy brought his appeal, said there had been a “breach of trust” – and that since Mr Molloy had “lost his temper again on the day he went to give the apology”, his view was that it was “not a once-off incident”.
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