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‘That dog is not allowed in here’ – Dealz ordered to pay €7,000 for ‘humiliation’ of blind Irish Paralympian

Nadine Lattimore during an Ireland paralympic squad training camp. Ireland Paralympic Squad Training Camp - November 2010, University of Limerick, Limerick. Picture credit: Brian Lawless / SPORTSFILE

Stephen Bourke

A paralympic athlete has won €7,000 in compensation for the “humiliation” she suffered in a confrontation with a security guard who tried to tell her that her guide dog was not allowed in a Dealz shop.

Nadine Lattimore, who represented Ireland in track and field at the London Paralympic Games in 2012, secured the award on foot of a complaint under the Equal Status Act 2000 against Dealz Limited after the incident at a store in the Ilac Centre, Dublin 1, on 23 August last year.