€12,000 awarded to black American tenant subject 'to hostile environment' by landlord's son

A black American tenant who was called ‘a black b***h and a ‘black c**t’ by a landlord’s son has been awarded €12,000.

In ordering the landlord to pay the money to the married mother-of-two, Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Adjudication Officer, Marian Duffy has found that the woman was discriminated against on the grounds of her race in her Equal Status Act complaint.