Man loses discrimination case against RTÉ over absence of sign language for All-Ireland final

In relation to the All-Ireland Football final, RTÉ accepted that this was a significant event and that ISL was not provided. File photo: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

A Kerry native and deaf activist has lost his discrimination case against RTÉ over its failure to broadcast Irish Sign Language (ISL) for the 2019 All-Ireland football final between Dublin and Kerry.

In his discrimination case brought under the Equal Status Act, Micheál Kelliher claimed that RTÉ's failure to broadcast the ISL during the All-Ireland, which he said was an event of significant national importance, constituted an example of the active discrimination against the deaf community.