Caroline Curran said she was verbally abused and mocked because of her background and gender while working as an assistant manager at the Four Winds bar in Castlereagh.

One manager told her she was “not in the Devenish now”, a reference to a bar in the west of the city, after hearing her on the phone.

Another incident saw a male staff member say to her: “Would you women f*** up!… you’re never done moaning.”

Ms Curran told Sunday Life: “I’m a strong person, but I found it extremely difficult to deal with mentally and I can only imagine if it was a younger woman or someone maybe not as strong as myself, what sort of state they would be in?

“I just didn’t want to let that go or allow them to treat anybody else like that.”

She began work as an assistant manager in south Belfast in March 2017, working under manager Dermott McGinn and alongside assistant manager Conor Magee.

In one incident she said Mr Magee asked her to phone a customer and commented on her pronunciation of the word ‘now’.

He said: “You were doing well there until you said ‘niii’.”

Mr Magee denied the claims at a grievance meeting, saying that he “hadn’t exactly a posh voice himself”, adding that he was from west Belfast.

Ms Curran took the case to the tribunal after the meeting failed to uphold her complaints.

The tribunal found she more likely than not mocked but that this was not because of her gender and that her claims she was undermined were not because of her gender.

She was awarded £1,080 (€1,118) for injury to feelings.