# travelling-community - Thursday 28 March, 2019
“I actually felt more hurt for the younger generation that they still have to face this.”
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# travelling-community - Saturday 3 November, 2018
# travelling-community - Sunday 21 October, 2018
Steo Wall, who has just released his first album ‘Where I’m From’, struggled with his Traveller heritage until he found the words to express it to others.
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# travelling-community - Thursday 18 October, 2018
# travelling-community - Wednesday 17 October, 2018
Casey had said that travellers are “basically people camping in someone else’s land”.
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# travelling-community - Monday 8 October, 2018
# travelling-community - Thursday 31 May, 2018
The Department of Education says St Thomas’ Clonshaugh will close by June 2019 at the latest.
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# travelling-community - Wednesday 11 April, 2018
A local member of the Travelling community wants to name the site out of solidarity with the plight of Palestinians.
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# travelling-community - Thursday 21 December, 2017
House of Lords member David Alton says the Irish Traveller community have “long faced significant prejudice in Britain”.
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# travelling-community - Saturday 2 September, 2017
Tinsmithing, education, and pride in who you are: the impact of one of the most momentous achievements for Traveller activists.
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# travelling-community - Wednesday 30 August, 2017
The family of seven are living in a caravan without basic facilities such as running water.
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# travelling-community - Monday 7 August, 2017
“It’s a ticking bomb, people are walking around with diabetes and [high] blood pressure and they’re not aware that they have it.”
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# travelling-community - Monday 17 April, 2017
The initiative is aimed at encouraging disadvantaged groups into the teaching profession.
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# travelling-community - Thursday 9 March, 2017
The fire claimed the lives of four people when it broke out early yesterday morning.
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# travelling-community - Thursday 2 March, 2017
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he hopes the move will have a “transformative effect”.
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# travelling-community - Tuesday 20 December, 2016
They say they have been homeless since their previous accommodation was burnt down in 2015.
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# travelling-community - Thursday 17 November, 2016
They said they were turned away because they had come from the Traveller conference which was being held next door.
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# travelling-community - Monday 10 October, 2016
“Have adequate safeguards been installed on halting sites to ensure that nothing like this occurs again?” the priest asked at the memorial service today.
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# travelling-community - Monday 5 September, 2016
Education Minister Richard Bruton has said his department is taking steps to assist the boy’s family.
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# travelling-community - Monday 13 June, 2016
About one in three people would support such a move.
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# travelling-community - Monday 16 May, 2016
A Council of Europe committee also found Ireland is not providing Travellers with adequate accommodation.
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# travelling-community - Monday 19 October, 2015
# travelling-community - Tuesday 13 October, 2015
A 14-year-old boy was released from hospital yesterday.
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# travelling-community - Wednesday 17 June, 2015
The incidents took place at Enniskillen’s South West Acute Hospital after the death of a patient there.
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# travelling-community - Friday 13 March, 2015
And they get it much, much younger.
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# travelling-community - Tuesday 10 March, 2015
“Yes, of course yes!”
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# travelling-community - Thursday 11 December, 2014
Francis Timmons proposed the motion, describing it as “one of Ireland’s biggest human rights issues”.
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# travelling-community - Tuesday 18 November, 2014
The child had been involved in numerous other incidents of bad behaviour.
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# travelling-community - Tuesday 1 July, 2014
The National Traveller Partnership has said that Local Authorities have a “poor track record” in helping Travellers and should not be in charge of their finances.
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# travelling-community - Friday 2 May, 2014
Though gardaí are often under pressure to make quick decisions, Shatter said any kind of discriminatory profiling is totally unacceptable.
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# travelling-community - Thursday 17 April, 2014
A report from the committee said the Taoiseach and Justice Minister should confirm this recognition and commence dialogue with representative groups about new legislation.
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# travelling-community - Wednesday 5 March, 2014
The Traveller Visibility Group in turn accused Ken O’Flynn of spreading “misinformation” after he offered to spend the night there.
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# travelling-community - Friday 17 January, 2014
One of the women says that the refusal to attend the suicide awareness charity event was ‘devastating’.
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# travelling-community - Sunday 18 August, 2013
Two secretive Traveller communities allowed a TV3 documentary-maker access recently. He found that after 200 years in the US, some of their traditions remain the same – while some are markedly different.
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# travelling-community - Sunday 28 April, 2013
Starring in the new movie, King of the Travellers, Michael Collins says he wanted the film to be realistic of the Travelling community. Here he tells us about being refused from Dublin pubs, not getting roles in movies, and coming up against everyday prejudices.
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# travelling-community - Friday 19 April, 2013
The Council of Europe report expresses concern about discrimination against Travellers in accessing the labour market.
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# travelling-community - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Donegal County Councillor Seán McEniff said that Travellers should be “segregated” in a “community of their own” in a recent interview.
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# travelling-community - Thursday 18 October, 2012
Just one per cent go to third level education, say census figures.
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# travelling-community - Wednesday 26 September, 2012
Pavee Point has criticised the Environment Minister after he wrote a letter to constituents telling them that a Traveller family would not be moving into their area.
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Phil Hogan has been called on to explain his intervention in the housing of a Traveller family in his constituency. Earlier the Environment Minister hung up on a local radio station.
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Travelling community challenge Peter Casey on Presidential campaign comments
Appearing on last night’s Late Late Show, Casey said that he does not discriminate against people.
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