Concert promoter MCD Productions has been ordered to pay €7,000 compensation to a cancer patient left “humiliated” by her treatment by two security staff members when refused access to disabled bathroom facilities at aWorkplace Relations Commission adjudicator Janet Hughes ordered MCD to pay Galway woman Anne Marie Davy the sum after finding that the promoter discriminated against Ms Davy on grounds of disability under the Equal Status Act.
However, during the gig, Ms Davy was refused access to the disabled bathroom facilities “despite the fact that I politely told the attendant I had a medical need to use it”, she told MCD in an email the following day. However, at the end of the gig, Ms Davy was refused access a second time to the disabled toilets by a different security staff member.
Expressing regret over the incident, MCD managing director Denis Desmond said: “Once we heard what had occurred, we offered our apologies to Ms Davy and I do so again.” He said there were protocols in place which the security company did not adhere to on the night. “Be assured there won’t be a repeat of what happened.”