# Travelling Community
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Last year
2023
Mental Health
'We are being failed': Travellers protest at Dáil over mental health crisis in their community
5 Dec 2023
8.5k
All time
IHREC
Councils 'deficient' at identifying Traveller housing needs, human rights commission finds
14 Jul 2021
9.5k
Travelling Community
President Higgins says 'exclusion' of Travellers is based on 'unrepublican populist sentiments'
8 Apr 2021
31.2k
Galway
Traveller family 'devastated' as gardaí investigate whether fire at council house started deliberately
31 Aug 2020
40.4k
Tipperary
'Weaknesses all over the system': Call for review of 'State failures' in family rape case
16 Jun 2020
11.1k
TWEET-GATE
Pavee Point director accepts apology from Lorraine Clifford-Lee, praises her 'positive approach'
Updated
15 Nov 2019
38.1k
146
Travelling Community
New tweets emerge of Fianna Fáil's Lorraine Clifford-Lee using offensive term 'pikey'
12 Nov 2019
46.7k
26
ireland's got talent
Ireland's Got Talent finalist 'hurt' by online abuse about Traveller background
28 Mar 2019
53.5k
47
Late Late Show
Travelling community challenge Peter Casey on Presidential campaign comments
3 Nov 2018
60.5k
235
Steo Wall
'My mates used to slag Travellers. Soon I realised it was me they were slagging, because I came from that.'
21 Oct 2018
54.7k
55
aras 18
Peter Casey denies racism as he travels to site of Traveller dispute - but says it's not his issue to solve
Updated
18 Oct 2018
77.3k
198
Controversy
'Appalling' and 'abhorrent': All five presidential rivals round on Casey over Traveller comments
Updated
17 Oct 2018
102k
335
Travelling Community
Council denies promising accommodation for horses at new housing estate
8 Oct 2018
36.6k
19
St Thomas’ Clonshaugh
The last Traveller secondary school in the country has been given another year to plan for closure
31 May 2018
26.4k
38
Solidarity
'I find it cynical, ignorant': Efforts made to rename Sligo halting site The Gaza Strip
11 Apr 2018
31.1k
20
Minority
Irish Travellers in the UK may face greater levels of discrimination post-Brexit
21 Dec 2017
28.0k
24
shifting tides
Over 6 months after Traveller ethnicity was recognised - what has changed?
2 Sep 2017
26.5k
25
Donegal
Traveller family take action against council over refusal to offer them housing
30 Aug 2017
21.7k
high blood pressure
The 'silent killer' that affects one million people in Ireland
7 Aug 2017
72.8k
15
diversity
Government initiative to encourage more Travellers to become teachers
17 Apr 2017
12.8k
33
Tragedy
'The grieving is absolutely unreal': Travelling community devastated after Clondalkin fire
9 Mar 2017
45.3k
14
Standing Ovation
'A borradh táileasc for the mincéir': Taoiseach speaks Cant as he recognises Traveller ethnicity
2 Mar 2017
14.2k
77
Fire
Traveller family launches legal action for Clare County Council to give them accommodation
20 Dec 2016
15.6k
Discrimination
Irish Travellers win discrimination case after Wetherspoon's pub refuses them entry
17 Nov 2016
44.9k
Travelling Community
Silent candlelit vigil held outside Leinster House in memory of Carrickmines fire victims
10 Oct 2016
7.4k
25
Travellers
Ireland 'failing' to provide safeguards to Travellers facing eviction
16 May 2016
15.2k
71
Carrickmines
Four-year-old remains in hospital after losing parents and siblings in fire
13 Oct 2015
9.8k
27
Mayhem
Some visitors to this hospital 'urinated in lifts' and 'defecated on toilet floors'
17 Jun 2015
40.2k
63
marriage ref
Gay man from Travelling community shares wonderful #YesEquality letter from his sister
10 Mar 2015
6.4k
2
Discrimination
South Dublin County Council votes to recognise Travellers as an ethnic minority
11 Dec 2014
11.3k
14
Bullying
School did not discriminate against expelled Traveller who waved fake penis at teacher
18 Nov 2014
33.0k
Local Authorities
Asbestos dumped on halting site was not removed for over four months
1 Jul 2014
13.7k
124
Discrimination
Shatter: Gardaí don't collect data on people based on race or because they're travellers
2 May 2014
8.2k
30
recognition
Justice Committee says Ireland should recognise Travellers as ethnic group
17 Apr 2014
12.1k
108