Court ruling keeps fairer sex off the fairway

Reported by Independent on Thursday, 5 November 2009 (on November 5, 2009)

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.

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