WRC dismisses Traveller family's discrimination case against former Bishop of Galway

They claimed Traveller women were excluded from the mass based on a dress code

The former bishop of Galway, Most Rev. Dr. Martin Drennan. Photograph: Hany Marzouk

A claim of discrimination against a Catholic bishop by a Traveller family over their alleged treatment at a Holy Communion mass five years ago has been dismissed by the Workplace Relations Commission.

The WRC ruled that it had no legal authority to adjudicate on 10 individual complaints by members of the Sherlock family that they had been discriminated against by the then Bishop of Galway, Martin Drennan, when they attempted to attend the mass on May 23, 2015.