In recent years, Department of Health employee Shane Corr has exposed financial behaviour within the health service and revealed significant State abuses of vulnerable citizens. It first informed Mr Corr of its intention to dismiss him the day after his protected disclosure to the Irish Mail on Sunday revealed the Government’s secret and cynical care-home strategy. The department’s determination to sack Mr Korr persisted even as Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe praised Mr corr for providing ‘a valuable