Three Co Mayo teachers have been awarded €10,000 each after the Equality Tribunal found they were discriminated against on grounds of gender in a job application.
Ms Mary Walsh, Ms Kathleen Jackson and Ms Helen Acton were found to have been discriminated against by Ballinrobe Community School in in relation to a competition for a temporary Assistant Principal.
The Equality Officer, Mr Brian O'Byrne, ordered the school pay €10,000 in compensation to each of the women amd also ordered that Ms Walsh be appointed to the position of Assistant Principal. It also said she whould be paid salary arrears since the date of the original appointment in November 2000.
The Equality Tribunal published a total of 22 decisions today under the Employment Equality Act and the Equal Status Act. Four employment cases were upheld, while six were rejected. Six equal status complaints were upheld, while no discrimination was found to have occurred in four equal status cases.
In another employemnt case, Mr Gabriele Piazza was found to have been discriminated against by the Clarion Hotel in Dublin, on grounds of sexual orientation, in relation to his conditions of employment. He was awarded €10,000 in compensation.
A total of €1,000 in compensation was awarded to several members of Traveller Community after a Limerick pub refused to serve them. Molly B's Pub in Rathkeale, Limerick was found to have discriminated against six Travellers in three cases by the Tribunal.
The tribunal ruled Mr Michael Hegarty, Mr Richard O'Brien, Mr Jim Sheridan, Mr Patrick O'Brien, Mr Patrick Sheridan and Mr Jerry Sheridan were barred from drinking in the pub on the grounds they were Travellers.
Mr Hegarty and Mr Jim Sheridan were each awarded €200, and Mr Patrick Sheridan and Mr Jerry Sheridan were each awarded €300 in compensation.
But the tribunal ruled no financial compensation should be awarded to Mr Richard O'Brien or Mr Patrick O'Brien.
Molly B's Pub was ordered to ensure that in future complainants would be served in the pub on the same basis as a non-Traveller would be served.
Three other bars were also found to have discriminated against Travellers, Foley's Bar, Rathkeale, and Ivan's Bar, Kilmallock, both in Limerick, and the Osborne Bar in Tralee. The Equality Tribunal ruled just under €2,000 should be paid out to a total of seven Travellers.
However, two other pubs, the Mardyke Tavern, Cork, and the Black Lion Pub, Clondalkin, Dublin, were found not to have discriminated against a number of Travellers.
