Ousted State agency boss ordered not to name third parties after reference to alleged blackmail attempt by senator

A former chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland has told the Workplace Relations Commission that he was pressured to reinstate a suspended employee and later faced interference in a recruitment process, allegedly involving a senator. Francis O'Donnell, dismissed last summer after four-and-a-half years in post, is pursuing claims of whistleblower penalisation and unfair dismissal at hearings in Dublin. He has…