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”.

Two cars and a house were damaged by fire in a further serious eruption of an ongoing dispute between settled Traveller families in Killarney, Co Kerry.

Firefighters in Cork City have called for garda backup to call-outs near a halting site after a colleague was injured in a stone attack.

Individuals could be blocked from objecting to Traveller community housing being built in their areas unless complaints meet strict new rules under Government plans.

Gardaí in Killarney have arrested two females in relation to a serious incident in the curtilage of a retail premises on Monday afternoon on the outskirts of the town involving a number of women in which two women were set upon and violently assaulted.

The Garda armed response unit was called to the 200-house Ballyspillane estate in Killarney, Co Kerry, on Tuesday to deal with an ongoing dispute between rival Traveller sides in a Traveller dispute.

The Irish Traveller Movement director Bernard Joyce will make the call to the Seanad public-consultation committee today.

Senator Colette Kelleher has announced that she will outline a plan that she says will create "a fair Ireland" for members of the travelling community.

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.

A dispute between Clare County Council and members of the Irish Traveller Community over a site earmarked for new social housing units has opened before the High Court.

Gardaí were called in after a gang of masked men armed with golf clubs and bats forced security staff to withdraw from a city-owned landbank where a vast illegal dump was cleared two months ago.

Five people could face prosecution for illegal dumping after information was found in rubbish cleared from a vast illegal dump on the northside of Cork city last week.

Hundreds of people rallied in Cork tonight demanding radical action to address the housing crisis as new figures showed that 400 new homes could be developed in vacant upper floors in the heart of the city.

A Traveller advocacy group has blamed members of the Travelling community for dumping a caravan on an illegal dump site - adjoining an overcrowded halting site - as a massive clean-up nears completion.

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

Middle Ireland is, by any comparison, a very good place in which to live. Let’s not allow Casey and his followers to wreck it, writes Victoria White.

A woman from the Traveller community who was verbally abused at a Dublin university has blamed presidential candidate Peter Casey for emboldening those with racist views in society.

HADN’T anticipated taking much comfort from this tepid shower of a presidential campaign but that’s what has happened. Peter Casey is the man responsible for it, writes Alison O’Connor. 

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Cork City faces a potential €250,000 bill for the clean- up of a notorious illegal dump site — again.

More bridges may be built between Travellers and the rest of society as more than 20 Traveller and Roma students have completed a university course in community work.

Traveller families left homeless by recent storms have rejected offers of replacement caravans because some of the homes were substandard.

Storm-affected Travellers have been told that any family which refuses all reasonable offers of replacement accommodation will have their emergency housing payments stopped.

A hotel has been ordered to pay €3,000 in compensation to a member of the Traveller community for the “humiliating” way that he and his family were refused admission to a hotel restaurant for a carvery lunch on the day of his daughter’s christening.

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.

Pounds around Ireland are filling up with dogs as people make way for a Christmas puppy.

Plans for the first Traveller horse grazing project of its kind in Cork have been reined in.

Gardaí have prevented a violent escalation of a Traveller feud after seizing guns and ammunition during a raid on the northside of Cork City.

Shots were fired on a Traveller halting site and tensions are running high after a man who lives on the site was acquitted of a machete attack on another resident.

A special application has been made to Cork County Council for permission to develop a Traveller horse grazing project on the outskirts of Cork City.

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

The State spent just over €672,000 providing 24-hour security during the construction of a state-of-the-art Traveller housing project in Cork City, it has emerged.

Michael Fassbender’s words echo those spoken by Fr Dermot Lane two weeks ago. He asked if anything had changed in wider society’s relationship with the Traveller community since the Carrickmines fire, writes Clodagh Finn

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

An audit of Traveller accommodation in the wake of the Carrickmines tragedy has found a litany of potentially lethal safety hazards in the homes across the country.

Travellers are discriminated against but parents have a responsibility in arranging their children’s education and in seeking any necessary help for their literacy, writes John Byrne

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.

One of Europe's top rights watchdogs has warned Ireland over the lack of accommodation for Travellers and poor living conditions at halting sites.

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