Hotel ordered to pay €5k to Traveller girls for cancelling Communion party three days before event

Finding that the hotel discriminated against all three because they are Travellers under the Equal Status Act, Mr Dolan stated that the evidence presented by the hotel “lacks a level of credibility”.

A hotel has been ordered to pay out €5,000 compensation to two young Traveller girls and their mother after cancelling a planned Holy Communion celebration for the girls just three days before the event.

In a ruling at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), Adjudication Officer, Jim Dolan ordered the hotel pay the mother €3,000 for the discrimination and €1,000 each to her two daughters planning to have their Holy Communion party at the hotel.