Barred Traveller wins €4,000 compensation

A TRAVELLER has won €4,000 compensation after a pub customer admitted he was getting free beer in return for keeping Travellers out following a ‘riot’.

Traveller, Anne Moorehouse, her husband and two others tried to gain entry into Lil Doyle’s in Co Wicklow in April, 2002, but their path was barred by two men.

“(One of the men) stated that the owner was providing him and the other male with free beer for preventing Travellers from entering the pub,” read a report by the Equality Tribunal.