Ireland

An Irish restaurant has been ordered to pay over £17,000 (€20,000) in compensation to a gay bar manager whose bosses called him “queer” almost every day at work. The man, who has remained anonymous, brought the case before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in the Republic of Ireland, giving numerous examples of offensive comments from his two bosses. Known in the case as ‘Director A’ and ‘Director B’, the pair made frequent homophobic comments to the bar manager both in and out of work. The WRC rejected their claim that...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump still haven’t paid the tab on their Irish pub crawl, reports the Irish Times. President Trump’s sons visited at least three pubs Wednesday night in the village of Doonbeg, the location of Trump’s international hotel and golf resort, the night before commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The Times reports that the Trumps offered free rounds during the bar carousing but failed to pay before leaving, according to one pub owner. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Caroline Kennedy, the...

Fundamentalist Christian Pastor Steven Anderson, who has made headlines in recent years by calling for the execution of all gay people, has just become the first person Ireland has ever banned. Anderson had planned to preach to a congregation in Ireland on May 26. It took just one petition signed by just 14,000, The Daily Beast reports, for the government of Ireland to act. Citing biblical passages, Pastor Anderson once told his followers, “if you executed the homos like God recommends, you wouldn’t have all this AIDS running rampant.” Anderson...

Anti-gay pastor Steven Anderson has been banned from entering Ireland under an immigration act passed in 1999 that has never before been used. The BBC reports: “His website claimed that he was due to preach in Dublin on 26 May. However, an online petition calling for Mr Anderson to be banned from Ireland was created in response, and gained 14,000 signatures. Anderson celebrated following the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, saying there were “50 less pedophiles in the world.” Anderson has compared gay people to ax murderers and Hitler. And he has said gays...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); An Arizona pastor who has said he prayed for the death of former President Obama and celebrated the 2016 massacre of 49 people at the predominantly LGBT nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida, has become the first person banned from entering Ireland, according to the Irish Times. Irish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan signed an order under the nation’s 1999 Immigration Act forbidding the entry of Steven L. Anderson, pastor of Arizona anti-LGBT hate group Faithful Word Baptist Church, ahead of a visit to Dublin that...