Dublin Bus has been ordered to pay a passenger â¬7,500 compensation after a driver is alleged to have subjected the man to anti-gay slurs.
In the case, the gay passenger alleged that the bus driver called him a âfaggotâ, âqueerâ and âschizoâ on different occasions in 2017 and 2018.
Dublin Bus denied that those terms were used and told the hearing that the bus driver has made a formal complaint to the Garda concerning the passengerâs behaviour and is awaiting the outcome of that complaint.
Dublin Bus stated that the passenger had 75,000 followers on his Instagram account and one of the videos posted online was of the driver finishing his shift at Talbot Street while the passenger stood on the pavement, shouting commentary about the driver to passers-by and intending passengers.