Co-founded by entrepreneurs Michael Carey and Alison Cowzer, East Coast Bakehouse employs 78 people in Drogheda. An interim examiner has been appointed to help save the business.
The founders of Senoptica have hit back in the Circuit Court against a move by loan-note holders to appoint an examiner to the business. They now want a joint examiner appointed.
"Deel lawyers instructed Mr O'Brien to lie to Deel's own laywers" and make a false report to the Central Bank, a barrister for Rippling told the High Court. The judge called the allegations "extremely serious".
Keith O’Brien’s explosive affidavit makes extraordinary allegations about Deel, a rival HR firm to his employer Rippling. Deel has denied them all.
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