Paralympic athlete Nadine Lattimore on her return home from the 2012 London Games, at Dublin Airport. File photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

A former Paralympic athlete has failed in an equality claim against a convenience store in Dublin after being stopped briefly at a shop entrance with her guide dog last year.

In a decision published on Monday, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) rejected a complaint of disability discrimination by Nadine Lattimore against NM Palmerston Retail Investments Ltd, trading as Centra on Parnell Street in Dublin 1.

Ms Lattimore, who represented Ireland in track and field in the London Paralympic Games in 2012, is blind and has been a guide dog user for over a decade and a half.

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