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Clohessey’s Bar

Two members of the Travelling community won their case of Discrimination yesterday against Clohessey’s Bar on Bishop’s Quay after they were told that their “type” were not welcome, reports the Limerick Chronicle.

Bridget and Nora Casey brought a case against the bar and restaurant before the Equality Tribunal, when they were told to leave the premises on 22nd of January 2002.

In their evidence the women stated that they were regulars in the restaurant, and claimed that they were identified to staff as travellers by two members of the Gardai. It was also reported complaints were lodged with the superior officers of Gardai as a result.

It was claimed that in a meeting the following day with Brian Smith, co-owner of the bar, Bridget Casey was refused a reason as to why they were not served. and told her “your type are not welcome here.”

Denying the claim of discrimination, the management of Clohessey’s claimed that the reason the Caseys were refused entry was due to an incident that was alleged to have happened, during the previous October at the door of the Sin Bin nightclub, also a part of Clohessey’s.

Manager, Donal O’Sullivan also claimed that the two women created a scene when they were told lunch was off on 22nd of January.

Equality Officer Martin Duffy ruled in favour of the Caseys, and awarded them €200 each. Management were also ordered to issue an invitation back to the bar, given a free meal and a drink.

It is reported today in the Limerick Chronicle that Members of Limerick County Council voted unanimously to pass a motion demanding that Limerick City Council withdraw its application to Minister for the Environment and Local Government, Dic Roache, for an extension to the boundry of Limerick City.

County Councillors claim that a survey contained within the application was added without being seen by them.

The survey claims that most people living within the county council run estates of Limerick City would prefer to be governed by the City council.

Proposed boundry. click for larger image

Describing the survey, Cllr Jan O’Sullivan stated, “I would expect my first years to do a better survey.” meanwhile, Fine Gael’s leader in the council stated that it was more like the work of Sixth Class childrenn.

Another County Councillor, Patrick O’Donavan, stated, “There is unanimous opposition to this in the County, while there is unanimous support for it in the city.”

Councillor Eddie Wade of Fianna Fail demanded that members of the Dail state where they stand on the issue of the boundary extension.

It is an idea I have been thinking about for a few weeks, since I started my first blog on blogger. To start a blog so as not to have too many topics contained in the one journal.

Squids Blog was meant to be about me changing careers, but there were other things which I wanted to comment about, such as the goings on in the city. whether it be from stuff I find on the web, or in the local rags which doesn’t normally make it to the web. The news outlets in Limerick, those being the Limerick Leader and Chronicle, The Limerick Post, and Live95fm, only put a select number of stories and now that the “Alive in Limerick” blog is no longer going, there is now something lacking on the web.

This will be different to the Alive in Limerick blog, as I will be looking for team members to get involved also.

If you want to get involved drom me an email or comment at the end of this post.

You may need to register with blogger.com in order to take part. If you have a blog, then it would be advantagious. also this would be completely voluntary.

Anyway. lets see if we can make this the best news source for Liemrick.

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