Bid to renew licence fails after objection by Travellers

SIX settled Traveller families in Navan, Co Meath, yesterday successfully objected to the renewal of the licence for a pub which had imposed a blanket ban on Travellers.

It was the first time a judge refused to renew a licence on grounds of discrimination.

The objectors had been “humiliated and treated as second-class citizens” by publican Patrick Murphy, The Tailteann, 4 Trimgate St, Navan, Judge John Brophy said at Navan District Court yesterday.