NUIG settles gender cases with four staff

The settlement of a long- running dispute with four female academics over promotions at NUI Galway has not ended gender discrimination crisis at the university, a union has said.

Siptu was responding to the news that a High Court action, taken by the four lecturers alleging gender discrimination in a competition for promotions in 2008 and 2009, has been resolved.

The settlement required the approval of the Department of Education and Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It is understood to have been sanctioned by the university itself soon after Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh became president in January.