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AN ENGLISH pipe fitter who was verbally and racially abused while working for an engineering company has been awarded €20,000 in compensation by an Equality Tribunal.

The man said he was called names by his colleagues because of his background and became the butt of racist jokes and taunting almost immediately after starting work on a Dublin construction site in April 2006.