Refusal to allow family into Dublin inn 'reminiscent of a dark period of Irish history,' says judge

There was neither room nor food at the inn for a heavily pregnant mother, her husband, their four children and two elderly grandparents because they were Travellers, Judge John O’Connor said in the Circuit Civil Court.

And after excoriating the senior staff and the owner, Charlie Chawke, of the well-known Orchard Inn at Butterfield Avenue, Rathfarnham, Dublin, for its policy relating to Travellers he awarded the family €33,000 damages for defamation.