‘If you send an injunction to take down material, you shine a spotlight on it’
Aer Lingus planes at Terminal 2 in Dublin Airport. Photo: Getty
A senior manager at Aer Lingus has told a tribunal she feared that a pilot-turned-whistleblower would enjoy the “Streisand effect” if an injunction was sought to stop him posting online about his dispute with the airline.
Company secretary Méadbh Gallagher was giving evidence as the airline opened its defence of whistleblower penalisation and unfair dismissal against Aer Lingus Ltd by sacked airline captain Tom O’Riordan before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) this week.