Scottish football boss behind Dingle job losses

Scottish football mogul behind Dingle job losses

It has emerged that the man behind the Contact 4 operation in Dingle, which laid off 40 workers without pay or notice on February 28th, Mr. Pearse Flynn, is also the Chairman of Scottish Premier League Club Livingston FC. 108 workers were laid off in Dingle, Achill and Gaoth Daobhair on February 28th when the Scottish tele-sales company terminated their employment with a conference call. The workers, 40 in Dingle alone, had to pack up and leave immediately. To add insult to injury, the workers are still owed an entire months wages, holiday pay and bonus payments for targets reached in work. Contact 4 received €3 million in grant aid to set up in Ireland from Udaras na Gaeltachta and the Dingle call-centre had operated from the Udaras buildings in Milltown. A car-park and an extension was also built to facilitate Mr. Flynn's company.Mr. Flynn is also reportedly a shareholder in Celtic FC and his Glasgow call-centre, Contact4U has also gone into liquidation. He is also involved in a legal dispute with Callpoint Europe. Udaras na Gaeltachta are currently pursuing the matter and a redundancy fund is to be set up for the non-payment of the staff's wages.