Nadine Lattimore told the WRC that she left the restaurant because she felt 'upset and humiliated' and lodged a complaint with the company’s head office.
Eddie Rockets has been ordered to pay €5,000 compensation to a blind Irish Paralympian after she was told that her guide dog could only sit at tables at the front of a restaurant.
It is the third successful discrimination claim in the past six months by Ms Lattimore, who competed in track and field events for Ireland in the Paralympics in London in 2012. She said the restaurant sounded quiet and it was not a busy time of the day so that she did not anticipate there would be an issue as she had previously sat at a table further back from the door.
However, another staff member explained that Ms Lattimore had been in Eddie Rockets before and that she was allowed to sit anywhere she wished. She told the WRC that she left the restaurant because she felt "upset and humiliated" and lodged a complaint with the company’s head office. She added: "What occurred on October 2, 2023 in front of other customers was unacceptable, humiliating and deeply upsetting."
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