Father loses discrimination case over school's refusal to allow diabetic daughter go to soccer blitz

A father has failed in a discrimination action against a primary school over its refusal to allow his daughter, who is a diabetic, attend a soccer blitz as she didn't have a spare insulin pen.

In the case before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), the girl’s father claimed that his daughter was discriminated against on the grounds of her disability in respect of her exclusion from the event by the national school under the Equal Status Act.