Ireland's only professional woman boxer has won her discrimination case against the Boxing Union of Ireland.
Ms Deirdre Nelson, from Greencastle, Co Antrim, was awarded £1,500 for stress and anxiety suffered during a "restricted period" of discriminatory treatment.
The Dublin-based Employment Equality Authority said the union had discriminated against Ms Nelson, in contravention of the Employment Equality Act of 1977.
The sportswoman gained her professional licence from the British Boxing Board of Control in February 1999.
When she inquired about boxing professionally in the Republic, she says she was told she could not until the European Boxing Union issued guidelines on women's boxing, particularly the medical aspects of the sport.
