A lacuna in information, perhaps, in need of senior officer review and action prior to being quoted?

It is of course telling that we are informed the HSE has no stats at a national level on disciplinary matters. How then could the HSE's leadership have formed a clear view on the ills of the system?

And last year, we learned that 15 years of absent management led to the HSE having to square accrued expenses and unpaid holiday pay with a middle-manager in property services. There was over €110,000 involved.

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In another case in 2023, a worker stayed at home for 2.5yrs on full pay before being sacked. The problem identified by the WRC was "light-touch" management. "This situation was in dire need of senior officer review and action," the AO wrote.

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The evidence was that the file had been waiting for attention from HSE HR for some time. "This case outlines a series of events that only served to benefit the harasser, the complainant’s rights seem to have been forgotten," the adjudicator found, awarding over €86k.

I think the most significant example is this ruling last month, where the WRC heard it took eight months for a victim of sexual harassment to be interviewed on her complaint and a further five months for disciplinary action to be launched.

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In this 2023 case, for instance, the HSE failed to enter any defence because the official handling the file was on leave and could apparently find no colleague to appear in her place. The claimant received over €23,000.

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Irish Times style would be to render a Westside accent as a string of gutteral consonants. The Ross O'Carroll-Kelly column in its time at the Times seems to have almost completely eliminated "roysh" as a concept, completing the institutionalisation of the D4 accent.

It's spelled 'thrun' actually.

Yes. Regarding the main gun in its anti-air role, the weapon nobody wants to talk about on the Years.

Last time we discussed this you asked, and I answered, that the main gun optic could be used to observe effect and adjust fire the same way a sniper and spotter work. You misread this as meaning something else, to be fair.

You're right, I skimmed the first line and thought this was in reference to the 76mm, because that's the one that makes any sort of sense in comparison to the old radar directed Bofors guns on the Eithne. Apples and oranges being compared here.

Again, I must keep asking, why keep buying military equipment if we're only going to pretend we don't have it?