Flutist punished for blowing whistle

Hugh Rance is a Cork-based flute teacher—who, according to The Irish Times, recently filed a whistleblower report over getting paid too much. Specifically, Rance said, the state-funded music program that employed him had for years been paying him and his colleagues for music lessons that never happened because of student vacancies:

Rance, a veteran employee of the Cork Education and Training Board School of Music, claimed that he and some of his colleagues had been paid for an 'enormous number' of teaching hours with student vacancies over the past five years.

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