In the summer of 2024, Thomas Hunter McGowan applied for the vacant position of CEO of the Port of Cork.  He didn’t get the job.  What followed was a two-year attempt “to alter the outcome of the selection process” at the Workplace Relations Commission, according to the WRC adjudicator. A case which he lost this month. Hunter McGowan had experience as managing director of Swansea Cork Ferries and had left his role as CEO of Kerry Co-op the year before applying for the Port of Cork role. After making it into the final three, he lost out to Ann Doherty,…

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