Well done to the union hall boysâŠâŠ can never be too sure when disaster strikes. Hey @Funtime make sure daddy services the rib ahead of the season yeah⊠mummy will soon be rid of those morning school drops and you will have the x5 to tow the tender down the harbour⊠bet you canât wait to bring the boys out for a spin.
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Ta for posting Dav. It meant i got to read the one above it, the ridiculous lough derg one, which i hadnât read.
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Feck remember reading about this dangerous bollox
Didnât spot the RNLI connection
Potential rapist/ kidnapper that sham
In fairness, thatâs every member of the RNLI
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to be fair @Thomas_Brady im not normally one for defending the rnli but most members are either rapists OR kidnappers, rather than both
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Oh dear.
Ah lovelyâŠ
Jesus itâs some RNLI love-in at HQ today.
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This puts Bloody Sunday in the hapenny place for brits running a mok in HQ
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Itâs 2022⊠mate
The Skerries RNLI flag flying at half mast today.
Did someone of significance die recently ??
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Bit slow off the mark today. They could have made a killing in âfundraisingâ.
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WRC told RNLI regards Ireland with âcontemptâ
The Royal National Lifeboat Institutionâs former top manager in Ireland says staff at its UK headquarters regard Ireland with âignoranceâ and âcontemptâ and treated it as a âpoor relationâ during his tenure.
He also said the RNLI was a âgovernance basket caseâ, with kit not being issued on time and training running out â leaving volunteers putting to sea with out-of-date qualifications.
SeĂĄn Dillon said it was âsymbolic of the contempt towards Ireland as a region in the RNLIâ that it had failed to attend yesterdayâs Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) hearing into his complaint under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977.
He has accused the RNLI of sacking him in an unfair redundancy before installing a manager from the charityâs headquarters in Poole in England as its Irish regional head.
The former Army captain said this came after âpushbackâ from RNLI headquarters staff in Poole in Dorset to a decentralisation plan he and other regional managers put together for the charityâs new chief executive, Mark Dowie, before the Covid-19 pandemic.
The plan was to give more autonomy to regional managers and devolve functions such as fundraising, HR and corporate governance. Poole, which Mr Dillon said was regarded as âfatâ and a âbottleneckâ by Mr Dowie, was to be redesignated âfrom headquarters to a âsupport centreââ, which he said was âlike asking turkeys to vote for Christmasâ.
The complainant said he had to stop fundraising material going out to Irish households with the British queenâs picture and the pound sterling symbol but that there was resistance to devolving fundraising. Mr Dillon also said that Irish donors would hand over cheques with a view to them going to Irish lifeboat stations, but they would instead be sent to the UK and âgo into an account foreverâ.
Put on notice
As decentralisation progressed in 2021, he found out he would have to interview for a job he said he was already doing, he said. Then he was put on notice that he was at risk of redundancy, as were others at his grade and some staff in Poole, Mr Dillon said.âI felt there was a lot of shenanigans going on,â he said.
The adjudicating officer, Eileen Campbell started the hearing an hour past the hearingâs start time yesterday, having satisfied herself the charity was on notice.
Ms Campbell closed the hearing to consider her decision.
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A lot of âhe saidâ 'she said '⊠But itâs great to see @Funtime vindicated. @backinatracksuit and @Tank must feel very sheepish after reading that.
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I come from a long line of people whoâve made their living from the sea, Iâve had a number of ancestors perish in the sea, the father of one of my best pals growing up drowned in the harbour while he was in utero
I support saving lives at sea, you lot are so bitter you canât see beyond the R
Are you gonna get out of your cosy bed, you are in your fuck
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