College settles gender case with female lecturer

National University of Ireland Galway has reached a settlement with one of five female academics who have been pursuing gender discrimination cases over a promotions process in 2009.

The development comes as mediation failed to resolve the college’s long-running dispute with four other women whose cases have been going through the courts.

NUIG and the Irish Federation of University Teachers confirmed an agreement in the case of the individual lecturer who pursued her dispute with the college through industrial relations rather than the legal system.