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Travellers are being stereotyped as criminals and viewed as untrustworthy, a protest outside the Dáil over Traveller accommodation heard yesterday.
The protest was organised by Minceirs Whiden, an all-Traveller forum, following the recent tragedy in Carrickmines where ten people, including five children, died in a fire that engulfed a cabin and a caravan on a temporary halting site on Glenamuck Road, in south Dublin.
A minute’s silence was observed to remember Willie Lynch (25), his partner Tara Gilbert (27), their children Kelsey (4) and Jodie (9), Willie’s brother Jimmy (39) as well as Thomas Connors (27), his wife Sylvia (25), and their children Jim (5), Christy (2), and five-month-old baby Mar
Martin Collins of Pavee Point said the Government’s failure address the Traveller accommodation crisis had led to 'unacceptable levels of overcrowding' and 'unsafe conditions' and was 'a breach of human rights'.
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