A study on Rathkeale, claiming the Co Limerick town has its own form of apartheid due to the divide between Travellers and the settled community, has been dismissed by community leaders as “total rubbish”.

THE church choir in Rathkeale is refusing to sing at Sunday Mass following an unholy row over unruly and scantily dressed young Traveller girls.

A GRAFFITI attack has been carried out on Rathkeale’s tree stump which people claim projects the image of Our Lady.