Conor McCauley says he is ‘sick of being treated as second-class citizen’ on public transport
A young wheelchair user, who had what he described as an ”awful experience” when he was shouted at and blamed for delaying the departure of a train he was boarding in Dublin late last month, says he is “sick of being treated like a second-class citizen”.
“He got the ramp off the train, then roughly pushed me literally on to the train by my back and continued making a scene.”‘Everyone is upset, stressed and shocked’: Ukrainian families in South Dublin face relocation on Monday Mr McCauley subsequently overheard the same employee in conversation with someone “loudly asking who I had informed, and stressed again that someone should have come with me, while blaming me for delaying the train for everyone else. I’m so sick and tired of being treated like a second-class citizen,” Mr McCauley says.However, there are systemic problems for wheelchair users on public transport, he says.
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