Long journey for recognition of Travellers' ethnicity

Travellers want to be officially recognised as an ethnic minority. Are they really asks Ailin Quinlan.

In the 1992 film Into the West, two motherless Traveller boys, Tayto and Oisín, live in a grim tower block in Ballymun with their father, a former Traveller ‘King’.

When the boys’ grandfather, a traditional Traveller who regales the spell-bound children with Irish folklore, is followed home one night by a beautiful white horse called Tír na nÓg (‘Land of Eternal Youth’ in Irish), the boys dream of becoming cowboys.