€44,000 to fiddler Matt McGranaghan last week by the Workplace Relations Commission after the latter was sacked abruptly by email, despite having gigged with English for six years. The entity that sacked McGranaghan, MEPC Music Ltd, jointly owned by English and country music promoter Paul Claffey, will have little trouble funding the compensation award, according to its accounts.
When Domino’s Pizza was looking for its first Irish franchisees in the early 2000s, Brian MacGoey, a former Irish under-21 rugby international, decided to get a slice of the action. He remortgaged his house to raise the €190,000 it cost to open a store in his native Limerick. Soon enough he was earning more than just a crust, opening several other outlets and becoming the largest Domino’s franchisee in the west.
When one tenant fell into a month’s arrears, his parking space was revoked. He complained to the RTB. The landlord said it had suspended the tenant’s access to parking not because of arrears but because his car had an oil leak. But they admitted that access to a parking space was not guaranteed, saying if it had been included in the rent, if would have been mentioned in the lease agreement between the parties. Despite this, the RTB ruled the tenant had been treated unfairly.
The Second Captains Podcast recounted the story last week of how the station’s then owner, Denis O’Brien, who was at the time part-funding Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni’s salary, visited the broadcaster’s chief executive, Frank Cronin, after the tournament. O’Brien congratulated Cronin on the station’s coverage of the Euros and handed him €1,000 in cash to split between the members of the sports department, the team was told.