A number of violent incidents in the past few years have culminated in the Justice Minister’s appeal to Ireland to be tolerant, writes Neil Michael

She had acknowledged the “huge hurt and offence” that she had caused with her tweets, he told RTÉ Radio’s News at One.

Fianna Fail Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee has said she would like to apologise “face to face” to the Travelling community for controversial tweets sent nine years ago.

Ministers have called on Fianna Fail election candidate Lorraine Clifford-Lee to apologise directly to Travellers for controversial tweets and claimed the comments were used as a “weapon”.

Social media companies can do more than delete accounts spreading false information – they could “badge” those that are reputable sources of information, said Health Minister, Simon Harris.

A new vaccine alliance with the aim of boosting the uptake of childhood vaccines will be open to organisations that “support its principles”.

Among the 1,715 University of Limerick students who celebrated their graduations yesterday was Dr Sindy Joyce, who became the first Traveller in Ireland to graduate with a PhD.

On International Men’s Day, Donal O’Keeffe asked some well-known Irish men for their thoughts on what it means to be a man, and what they’d tell their younger selves about masculinity

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Many Roma people in Ireland are living in rat-infested accommodation and going to bed hungry.

There is a disquieting culture of violence in Ireland’s Travelling community. Monday’s shooting in west Dublin, in which a woman, an eight-month-old baby, and a boy (17) were injured by a shotgun blast is the latest example of inter-family feuding violence.

The Taoiseach has said Travellers can walk with their head held high after being formally recognised as a distinct ethnic group.

Pavee Point has called for college scholarships and for earlier interventions in second level to keep Traveller children in school.

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.

Management companies need to give census enumerators access to apartment blocks so census forms can be delivered to every home.

The Government is set to approve the closure of a legal loophole which allows minors aged between 16 and 18 get married.

Discrimination and prejudice against Travellers and Roma is racism, it must be named as racism and tackled as racism, President Michael D Higgins has insisted.

A Fine Gael TD has lodged a formal complaint about Traveller advocates verbally abusing her on the grounds of Leinster House, after being left “visibly upset” and in “a state of shock” following the incident.

Travellers’ rights campaigners say they fear the decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions not to press charges against writer Brenda Power for incitement to hatred gives the media free reign to publish racist comment.

LIFE is not a hymn sheet, which is why nobody has the right to expect that everyone should be on the same page as them.

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

Traveller groups have described the decision to accommodate the survivors of the Carrickmines tragedy in a carpark as a “sad indictment of our society” and said once again Travellers’ rights were second to the demands of the majority population.

I know of one estate where nearby residents dumped rubbish at the entrance to a Traveller site, writes Fergus Finlay

Blaming the troika for hurting the poor will not bail out the Government when its record on protecting the vulnerable is scrutinised by the United Nations next week, the country’s human rights watchdog has warned.

Extending civil marriage rights to same-sex couples has been backed by the National Youth Council of Ireland. The endorsement came as Taoiseach Enda Kenny urged a large turnout for the May 22 poll as Government sources expressed jitters over a drift to the no side in the marriage equality referendum.

Traveller rights group Pavee Point has said another generation of Traveller children could be condemned to “poverty, unemployment and social exclusion” because of school enrolment policies.

Ireland must not to descend into "mob rule" motivated by "racist undertones" after a 200-strong protest forced three Roma families in Waterford to flee their homes over alleged crime issues in the city.

On 31 March of this year the Constitutional Convention recommended to the Government, by an overwhelming majority of 85%, that economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights, such as healthcare, housing and social security, be given enhanced protection in the Irish Constitution. 

Pavee Point has described as "despicable" the refusal by a funeral home to take the body of a teenage Traveller.

Traveller support group Pavee Point has lodged an official complaint over a Facebook page based in Waterford which demands the removal of Roma people from the city.

A conference on hate crime yesterday heard that the absence of legislation had created "permission to hate" and that hate-motivated crimes should attract harsher penalties.

Roma parents may be more reluctant to have their children vaccinated as a result of the two cases last year in which Roma children were mistakenly removed from their families, according to a report.

A leading Roma group said it was “confident” the inquiry into the removal of two Roma children from their families will be full and comprehensive.

A review of domestic violence laws could change the lives of the one in five women abused at the hands of a partner, a charity claimed.

The removal of children from Roma families after their physical features prompted suspicion does not expose institutionalised racism in the gardaí, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted.