{"id":98250,"date":"2025-10-02T03:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98250\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:07:12","slug":"aer-lingus-manager-feared-streisand-effect-if-it-got-injunction-over-sacked-pilots-campaign-of-disruption-on-social-media-wrc-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98250\/","title":{"rendered":"Aer Lingus manager feared \u2018Streisand effect\u2019 if it got injunction over sacked pilot\u2019s \u2018campaign of disruption\u2019 on social media, WRC told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018If you send an injunction to take down material, you shine a spotlight on it\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aer Lingus planes at Terminal 2 in Dublin Airport. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ca937457-afeb-40f3-92c8-ef45a122ea75.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Aer Lingus planes at Terminal 2 in Dublin Airport. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A senior manager at Aer Lingus has told a tribunal she feared that a pilot-turned-whistleblower would enjoy the \u201cStreisand effect\u201d if an injunction was sought to stop him posting online about his dispute with the airline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Company secretary M\u00e9adbh 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\u2019Riordan before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018If you send an injunction to take down material, you shine a spotlight on it\u2019 Aer Lingus planes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2442,79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-98250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-aer-lingus","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}