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Wed 08 Aug 2008Tribunal signals that discrimination against English people is no joke
HEARD THE one about the English man who claimed he was discriminated against by the Irish? The case was no joke for "Mr C", who won €20,000 from the Equality Tribunal having complained of non-stop discrimination in his place of work.
Anti-Irish discrimination, stretching back to the 19th century, is so well documented it will come as a surprise to some people that anti-English discrimination also exists. The tribunal decision will send out a signal that you do not have to be black, Asian or eastern European to take a race-discrimination case and that there is a fine line between good-natured slagging and racist abuse.
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