Appeal against golf club ruling opens
“Golf is not a need that is peculiar to persons of the male gender,” Frank Callanan, counsel for the Equality Authority, argued yesterday.
He was making submissions before the five-judge court on preliminary issues in the appeal by the authority against a High Court decision of 2005 that Portmarnock is not a “discriminating” club because it fell within exemption provisions in Section 9 of the Equal Status Act 2000.
