Englishman gets €20k for racial abuse

AN ENGLISH pipe-fitter who was racially abused and taunted in his Irish workplace was awarded €20,000 in compensation.

Englishman gets €20k for racial abuse

The man, who worked for an engineering company on a Dublin building site, claimed colleagues called him names and frequently ganged up on him to sing Irish rebel songs.

Some workers never spoke to him and whenever staff had to enter tanks or dangerous spaces they would say “send the Brit in” to make the way safe.

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