The Workplace Relations Commission , as well as the Labour Court, had also found that Mr Ó Suird had been wrongly dismissed by the board.
In his rulings, the judge granted several other orders in Mr Ó Suird favour, including that all arrears of pay and entitlements due be paid to him.Unfairly dismissed principal who endured ‘terrible injustice’ over 11 years must be reinstated, judge rulesThe judge also ruled that the board pay Mr Ó Suird’s legal costs on the “practitioner-client” basis, which is a higher scale than the normal legal fees.
“It is well past time, in my view, for the vendetta to come to an end. It is time for the board to accept that it unfairly dismissed Mr Ó Suird and seek to make amends.” said the judge.Mr Ó Suird was put on administrative leave in 2012 following a complaint that he had pulled a seated first-class student by the jumper to remonstrate with the boy.