Tag: Travellers
Pavee Future: Where do Travellers fit into the New Ireland?
Machetes, car rammings, and armed Gardaí dispatched to patrol the streets of a rural town, the all too predictable goings on in Rathkeale have led to us all rolling our eyes as yet again traveller violence bleeds out into the...
Ireland’s Traveller Policy: An Inherent Contradiction
The ‘National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy’ (2017 – 2021), published in June 2017 described Travellers and Roma as “among the most disadvantaged and marginalised people in Ireland”. The Report provides strong evidence for this marginalization citing for example that...