State ‘has fostered Traveller apartheid’

Published: Wednesday, July 07, 2010

SOCIETY'S failure to emancipate Travellers must rank as "one of the most serious social embarrassments" in the State's 86 years of independence, a hard-hitting report has claimed.

It calls for an end to "informal apartheid" of Traveller people and a radical change of policy to reverse the "vicious" circle" which has perpetuated the misery of one of Ireland's most valuable minorities.

Click here to read full article by By Fergus Black, Irish Independent, Thursday July 08 2010