Sacked Catholic waiter awarded €16K

A Catholic who was sacked from his job as a waiter at a Belfast hotel was today awarded £10,000 (€16,000) for ``loss of opportunity'' by judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

They backed Liam Devenny's claim that his dismissal was a breach of his human rights because he was not given a ``fair hearing'' by an employment tribunal.