A veteran Siptu official who claimed she was penalised for blowing the whistle on alleged wrongdoing at a senior level in the organisation has lost her case at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).

Ger Malone, a long-standing organiser with the union, had claimed she was “conspired against” when she was voted out of her position as chair of Siptu’s staff representative council after blowing the whistle on what she termed “a litany of wrongdoings” at the trade union and in local government.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) rejected her case in a 76-page decision document published on its website over the bank holiday weekend. It follows 11 days of hearings on the case in Waterford and Carlow between April 2024 and February 2025.

“Everything I had believed in just came crashing down, it was like somebody pulled my soul out of me… I felt overwhelmed by power [and] found myself in a scenario where I had very little in terms of support apart from my very good colleagues,” she told a hearing last year.

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She said penalisation “rapidly increased” after that, complaining that she had received a series of letters from union bosses which included...

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