A Dublin based company has been ordered to pay a worker €7,000 after graffiti appeared in his workplace with the "highly offensive and deplorable" word ‘faggot’.

A large supermarket chain is counting the cost of unfairly dismissing a female worker for taking without paying a €6.74 pack of ‘Hot Wheels’ toy cars for her upset 18-month-old baby boy.

The Workplace Relations Commission has ruled that Applus, the national car test firm, was right to sack a test centre administrator who is alleged to have told a customer ‘f**k off'.

A bank has been ordered to re-employ a bank official it unfairly sacked him over the interest rates on an account owned by his parents.

A woman has been awarded €12,400 on behalf of her husband after he passed away before his case for age discrimination could be heard.

An accounts assistant who was dismissed from her job days after informing a company she was pregnant, has been awarded €52,000 after the Equality Tribunal found that her dismissal amounted to discrimination on the grounds of gender.

Clear guidelines need to be set out on whether children under the age of 18 have the right to refuse consent to medical treatment, the Government-appointed rapporteur on children’s rights has said.

EVERY soccer and GAA referee in the country must have despaired at John O’Donoghue’s opening performance in the Ceann Comhairle’s robes.