It is not common for me to sympathise with Irish Rail, but in this case, they did everything right and fell foul of the incompetent Workplace Relations Commission.
RTE reports that an employee of Irish Rail was sacked after Gardai stopped the IR van he was driving and found illegal drugs therein.
An internal disciplinary tribunal in IR did not recommend the dismissal of the employee but IR proceeded to dismiss the employee anyway. For this, the employee was awarded €47,000.
I am aware that many WRC cases are overturned on appeal and in this case, I would support IR taking such an appeal.