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'Big Green Bus' operator cleared of whistleblower penalisation against driver

Date
2025-11-10

Stage
Charge Or Pretrial

Primary locality
Dublin

County
Dublin

Summary

In November 2025 the Workplace Relations Commission rejected Nico Holloway's complaint that he was penalised for whistleblowing about the condition of Citi Bus Ltd's (trading as Dublin Coach) intercity coaches. The tribunal found that Holloway had made protected disclosures under the 2014 Act, but that the company had legitimate grounds for a negative performance review and that his dismissal was not linked to those disclosures. Holloway, a South African permit worker who joined in 2023, said he raised a range of defects between October 2023 and January 2024, including a cracked windscreen, faulty wipers, and a door that flew open on the M7. He claimed the company dismissed him in January 2024 for "unsatisfactory performance" and for allegedly planning a "mass exodus" of drivers. The WRC concluded that any dispute over what constituted an urgent repair was a difference of opinion and that no whistleblower penalisation had occurred.