When your culture has elements within it that are evidently harmful and self-destructive, it is not the duty of the state to try and mitigate that.
“People need to be held to account”
2-3 times more likely to have common health conditions
In Ireland, the media’s job, very often, is to hide the key facts of a story. Rathkeale, this week, is exhibit A.
‘Knackers’?
Community ’haemorrhaging people’
Research conducted for the St Stephen’s Green Trust (SSGT) has found that over 80% of Travellers are unemployed. This means that 8,500 of the 10,650 Travellers in the labour force are out of work or unable to find employment. The data is contained in the Travellers in the Main stream Labour Market: Situation, Experience, and […]
40 Irish surnames blacklisted.
The Rural Independents have accused the government of being “haphazard” in its approach to Covid-19 testing for incoming travellers saying it represents “a knee-jerk half-baked plan”. Reacting to the announcement the leader of the Rural Independents, Deputy Mattie Mc Grath stated: “We are pleased to hear that the government have finally taken the advice of […]
Last year, a Traveller family parked their trailer in a layby up the road from where I live. They had a fair bit of space, and a small generator was used to give light and heat. We’d often pass by walking the dog, or going to the shops, and sometimes we’d nod and say hello to […]
A former Mayor of Tuam has said that there are serious questions to be answered regarding a house fire which occurred in county Galway yesterday. Martin Ward, the Aontú representative for Tuam, who previously served two terms as Mayor of the town, was speaking today after it was announced that Gardaí are investigating following a […]
Question: What could cause a house that hasn’t been occupied for several years to spontaneously burst into flames mere days before a traveller family were due to move in? Gardaí in Galway are investigating a fire which extensively damaged a house which had been recently purchased to accommodate a Traveller family. The fire at the […]