Embassy reaches settlement with sacked house manager

THE Department of Foreign Affairs has reached a settlement with a Filipino man employed at the Paris embassy for 17 years who was sacked by the incoming ambassador because she wanted a woman in the job.

Eduardo Ramos was employed as the house manager in the Irish embassy in Paris but he was told that the incoming ambassador, Anne Anderson, would prefer to have a woman in the post for personal reasons.

A Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson confirmed that a settlement had been reached with Mr Ramos, who is still living on the fourth floor of the embassy building with his wife and his one-year-old daughter.