DEC-S2002-097-100

Equal Status Act 2000
EQUALITY OFFICER'S DECISION NOs: DEC-S2002-097 / 100

Mary Collins, Michael Collins, James Dinnegan and Bridget McDonagh
(represented by Hughes, Murphy Walsh & Co, Solicitors)
v
Drogheda Lodge Pub, Finglas
(represented by Mason Hayes Curran, Solicitors)

File No. ES/2001/648 -651
Date of Issue 31/7/2002

Key words:Equal Status Act 2000 - Direct discrimination, section 3(1)(a) - Membership of the Traveller community, section 3(2)(i) - Supply of goods and services, section 5(1) - Refusal of service in pub - Action taken in good faith, section 15(2) - Action required by an enactment, section 14 - Publicans' obligations under the Licensing Acts

This dispute concerns a complaint by Mary & Michael Collins, James Dinnegan and Bridget McDonagh that they were discriminated against, contrary to the Equal Status Act 2000, by the Drogheda Lodge Pub, Finglas. The complainants maintain that they were discriminated against on the Traveller community ground in terms of sections 3(1)(a) and 3(2)(i) of the Equal Status Act 2000 in not being provided with a service which is generally available to the public contrary to Section 5(1) of the Act.

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