Female biker told class was ‘men only’

A WOMAN biker was sent to the back of the class when she tried to enrol in a course to help her repair her powerful Honda machine.

Lorna O’Connor, from Corbally, claims that when she applied to St Mary’s Adult Education Training Centre in Limerick city for the motorbike engineering course, she was told it was a came under the ‘Project with Men’ category.

She said: “I was more or less told that it would be alright to watch from the back of the class.