A former byelection candidate’s claims of wrongdoing at his old job are “complete fantasy”, a lawyer for the firm has said.
Tony Corrigan, a qualified solicitor who stood as an Independent candidate in the Dublin Central byelection in May, is pursuing employment rights complaints against his former employer, Identity Digital Ltd, at the Workplace Relations Commission.
Corrigan, who worked in a legal role at the internet domain registry company, alleges in a complaint under the Unfair Dismissals Act 2014 that he was unfairly sacked in March 2025 because he turned whistleblower the year before.
No details of what was claimed by Corrigan in this alleged protected disclosure were discussed at a preliminary hearing on Monday.
The hearing dealt with legal argument on which of a series of statutory complaints raised under the Unfair Dismissals Act, the Payment of Wages Act and the Employment Equality Act by Corrigan were properly before the commission.
Corrigan said he raised a protected disclosure on June 19th, 2024, and was placed on a performance improvement plan, or “PIP”, on September 10th that year.
He said a disciplinary process was initiated against him the day after the PIP started.
Having taken a period of sick leave that winter, he said the company failed to discharge salary payments in a period between November 2024 and February 2025.
“December [2024], that was pure vindictiveness,” he said. He said that the company paid him “nothing” that month and put him...
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