British worker 'racially abused' by Irish colleagues

An English worker has won more than £15,000 in compensation after a court ruled that he had suffered racial abuse in his Irish workplace.

The man, who worked in Dublin, complained that colleagues would say "send the Brit in" if they had to enter potentially dangerous spaces at work.

They also read out negative reports of England's 2006 World Cup performance in his presence.

The man told an equality tribunal that the abuse, which started shortly after he joined the firm in April 2006, got so bad that he ate lunch in his car instead of the canteen.

The tribunal found that the man was racially harassed and that some of his colleagues' acts were of a blatant and intimidatory nature.