Jim Desmond told the Workplace Relations Commission that the operator of Mallow Racecourse refused him access to a tent at a race meeting on October 31st 2021
Mr Desmond said his competitors, including “High Street” bookies, “phone betters” and the Tote were all “allowed indoors or outdoors depending on the weather” but that on-course bookmakers such as himself “are not allowed use the available indoor facilities”, which he said were “lying idle”.
At a hearing last November into his complaints, Mr Desmond told the WRC he was seeking to progress his claim on the grounds of disability “in terms of his enduring compromised mobility and a number of associated medical conditions”. The dispute came before the WRC in circumstances where Mr Desmond said he had no confidence the Irish Bookmakers’ Association dispute resolution mechanism to resolve the matter – though AIR had maintained a “careful application” of betting ring pitch rules could have solved it.
He said the association had no role in the design of the racecourse betting rings where Mr Desmond would set out his stall, as this was “firmly in the domain” of the racecourse operators.
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