Cork hotel ordered to pay out €11k for not hosting Traveller girl's confirmation celebration

The manager of the four-star hotel told the customers that there was an overbooking and accommodation could not be provided

Oriel House Hotel had told the O’Sullivan party that they were overbooked on the day of their girl's confirmation celebration. File picture

A four-star hotel has been ordered to pay out a total of €11,000 compensation after declining to host a Traveller girl's confirmation celebration at the hotel.

At the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), Adjudicator, Thomas O’Driscoll has ordered the pay-out after finding that Oriel House Hotel Ltd trading as Oriel House Hotel discriminated against three individuals on the Traveller grounds under the Equal Status Act.