To think this is pretty brazen

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An electrician who was sacked by Irish Rail while serving a prison sentence for crashing into a group of cyclists while drunk and uninsured, leaving two of them with life-changing injuries, has been awarded €4,000 in compensation after winning his case for unfair dismissal.

road.cc/content/news/drink-driver-wins-unfair-dismissal-case-297135?amp

I'm Irish. Nothing surprises me.

Presumably he didn't run down the cyclists in his train. He did a dreadful thing and went to prison.

His offence and his job are two different issues so I don't think it is unfair that he was awarded something after being dismissed.

£4K isn't a lot though, it's not like he's been awarded £40k

Well no probably not because he's an electrician.

I'm just surprised that drunkenly running a group of people over and going to prison for it isn't reasonable grounds for dismissal. I can't really imagine trying to get a payout off the back of my own crime