DEC-S2002-071

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF EQUALITY INVESTIGATIONS

Equal Status Act 2000
EQUALITY OFFICER'S DECISION NO: DEC-S2002-071

Ms Winnie Burke
(represented by Michael Lanigan & Co, Solicitors)
v
Ned Kelly's Tavern
(represented by Newell Quinn Gillen & Co, Solicitors)

File No. ES/2001/106
Date of Issue 12/06/2002

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) - Provision of service in a pub - Fear of disorderly conduct, section 15(1)

This dispute concerns a complaint by Ms Winnie Burke that she was discriminated against, contrary to Sections 3(1) and 3(2)(i) of the Equal Status Act 2000, by the staff of Ned Kelly's Tavern, Waterford on the grounds of her membership of the Traveller community. The complainant maintains that she was discriminated against on the Traveller community ground in terms of sections 3(1) and 3(2)(i) of the Equal Status Act 2000 in that she was denied a service which is generally available to the public contrary to Section 5(1) of the Act.

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