The Council of Europe says there's still 'significant discrimination' towards Travellers in Ireland. In a new report, it says Travellers are 38 times more likely to experience discrimination in pubs compared to other 'white-Irish' people.

The Council of Europe says there's still 'significant discrimination' towards Travellers in Ireland.

Safeguards must be put in place around the use of reduced timetables, which are a “daily reality for many vulnerable students” that disproportionately affect the most marginalized, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Schools may be inappropriately using reduced timetables as informal suspensions to deal with behaviour deemed difficult to manage in the classroom, the Ombudsman for Children has warned.

Gardaí are investigating how two Traveller caravans were burnt on two separate days in what one senior academic said may be a hate crime.

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The first Traveller to receive an honorary doctorate from UCC has accepted the award on behalf of her community and Ireland’s countless activists.

Four out of ten students who participated in a schools programme to address racism said they had previously experienced discrimination.

Several groups have welcomed the recognition of Traveller’s minority ethnicity status.

Traveller rights groups have said they hope Council of Europe criticism of the Government for failing to provide adequate housing will put “pressure” on the authorities to address the problem.

The Government has been found responsible for multiple human rights violations in relation to Traveller accommodation and evictions.

The five children and five adults who perished in the Carrickmines fire tragedy last weekend may not be buried for a number of days because of difficulties in identifying the remains.

A large lagoon of water and raw untreated sewage poses a serious health and drowning risk to almost 100 children living alongside it, a damning report has warned.

A Travellers’ rights group has lodged a formal complaint with the Council of Europe about appalling living conditions at an overcrowded halting site, which was at the centre of a stand-off with city workers yesterday.

Two young widows, both of whose husbands had died by suicide, were each awarded €1,000 by a court yesterday after being refused entry to a nightclub which was hosting a mental illness charity event.

WHEN a child misses 20 days of school in a year, a state body must automatically be notified and intervene with the family or guardian.

Schools that repeatedly refuse enrolment or breach proposed new admissions rules could get away with it unless an independent appeals system remains available, a parents’ leader has claimed.

Moving to Ireland from Moldova when I was eight was a defining moment for me.

The Environment Minister Phil Hogan says he resents and regrets claims against him of discrimination.

Signs of a feud between Traveller families gearing up in Tralee again this summer led yesterday to a public appeal from Pavee Point for families involved to “take a step back”.

Clare County Council is set to stop building accommodation units for Travellers.

The sponsor of Channel 4’s My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding has apologised after an advert for the programme was accused of being racist.

A Traveller gang “runs” the Dublin estate where 16-year-old Melanie McCarthy was gunned down, local community workers have claimed.

ACTOR and traveller Michael Collins has received a lifetime achievement honour at the Traveller Pride Awards.

THERE are now almost 9,500 Traveller families in the country, up more than 40% since the number of families was first recorded in 2002, new figures have revealed.

ABOUT 4,000 Travellers are living in “hazardous and deplorable” conditions — half of whom are living without water, sanitary and electricity services, a new report claims.

The lack of proper accommodation for Travellers in Ireland needs to be urgently addressed, according to a new report.

ON Thursday representatives of states from around the world will gather to sign an agreement aimed at strengthening the protection of economic, social and cultural rights for individuals.

I AM writing to the Hugarian ambassador to Ireland and the ministers for European and Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Irish Traveller Movement in response to the most recent example of another death as a result of anti-Roma violence in Hungary.

A MEDIATOR with the Northern Ireland peace process has been engaged to assist in ending the enduring conflict between Travellers and the settled community.

Mediators could be trained to resolve Traveller feuds and family rows, it emerged today.

A new study has found that members of the Travelling community are three times more likely to commit suicide than members of the general population.

The Garda College will today host an intercultural day for minority communities in Ireland.

Traditional camping sites for Travellers must be re-established across the island of Ireland as nomadism among the community will not die out, it was claimed today.

Traveller parents do not know how to deal with schools when their children are subjected to bullying and racist name-calling, a group revealed today.

The Irish Traveller Movement has accused the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern of breaking promises to them, saying that there are over 600 families living on roadsides without water or electricity.

TRAVELLERS have been demonised and condemned due to the fallout from the sentencing of a Co Mayo farmer, it was claimed yesterday.

Travellers are living in fear as they go about their day-to-day business due to the fall-out from the sentencing of a Co Mayo farmer, groups said tonight.

ONE-IN-THREE equal status complaints received by the Equality Authority last year were made by Travellers.

The Irish Traveller Movement and the Equality Authority are holding a conference in Dublin today to discuss ongoing inequalities suffered by Travellers.