Clare hotel ordered to pay Traveller woman €3.5k for cancelling her wedding

A County Clare hotel has been ordered to pay €3,500 to a Traveller woman when discriminating against her by cancelling her wedding booking.

At the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), Adjudication Officer, James Kelly found that Treacy’s Oakwood Hotel in Shannon discriminated against Teresa Donovan under the Equal Status Act on the basis that she is a Traveller when cancelling her wedding reception booking at the hotel for February 16, 2019.