By Allison Bray
Independent
IRELAND — The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has been ordered to pay a middle-aged warder €80,000, after a tribunal found he was victimised and discriminated against on the basis of age and disability when he was passed over for promotion.
The guard, who is now 50, was 48 and battling cancer when he applied for a promotion to the position of acting assistant chief officer at Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison.
He was told he was working with “dinosaurs” and “no spring chicken” when he applied for the post, according to a decision by the Equality Tribunal.
The officer, who continues to work for the service, told the tribunal that he was the eldest of 17 candidates for the position, but he was not included in the selection panel when he applied for the post on July 1, 2010.
The age of the other candidates ranged from 29 to 46.
Full story: Prison officer told he was ‘no spring chicken’ gets €80,000