Ireland's exclusive Portmarnock Golf Club has won a legal bid to refuse women full membership. By Daily Telegraph Reporter Women can play at the course and pay green fees, but are not allowed to become full members Photo: GETTY...
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Portmarnock Golf Club's legal victory, which prevents women from becoming members, could have wide-ranging implications for gender relations. Women can play at the course and pay green fees, but are not allowed to become full...
The men of Portmarnock Golf Club have decided not to allow women be members. It is time for the women of Ireland not to do business with men who are members of such clubs. As a matter of course, women in business and all modern...
By Martina Devlin Thursday November 05 2009 Imagine a club that excludes people with a stammer as members. Actually, we don't have to imagine that -- we have two of them, both golf clubs in the Dublin area: Portmarnock and the...
NO outcome to the Portmarnock Golf Club saga could be satisfactory. Had the Supreme Court ruled against the club's men-only membership policy, it would have been a victory for the doctrinaire egalito-feminists whose appetites...
By Martina Devlin Thursday November 05 2009 Imagine a club that excludes people with a stammer as members. Actually, we don't have to imagine that -- we have two of them, both golf clubs in the Dublin area: Portmarnock and the...
NO outcome to the Portmarnock Golf Club saga could be satisfactory. Had the Supreme Court ruled against the club's men-only membership policy, it would have been a victory for the doctrinaire egalito-feminists whose appetites...
Do men have a "need" to poke small white balls into holes in the countryside in the company of other men? We ask because that is the implication of a verdict from the Irish Supreme Court which has ruled that Portmarnock Golf...
By Shawn Pogatchnik in Dublin A premier Dublin golf club can continue to block women from membership, the Irish Supreme Court has decreed, in a ruling that a dissenting judge argued was discriminatory. In a split 3-2 judgment,...
Supreme Court rejects appeal against discrimination By Sarah Stack, Stephen O'Farrell and Denise Clarke Wednesday November 04 2009 A leading golf club was last night accused of enforcing 19th century rules after it won a legal...
A premier Dublin golf club can continue to bar women from membership, the Irish Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a discrimination case inspired by similar protests against men-only clubs in the United States. In a split 3-2...