IN recent months there has been considerable public debate on issues relating to Government expenditure cuts, our economic recovery and the need to protect Ireland’s most vulnerable groups.

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.

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.

A €1.2 million travellers’ rights campaign has been wound up because it failed to address the concerns of the settled community and State funds were used for ads critical of the Government.