The Gmelchs recorded Travellers’ lives in 1971. A new documentary sees them catch up 40 years later, Colette Sheridan reports

Shotguns and samurai swords were among deadly weapons seized today by detectives investigating a spiralling feud between Traveller families.

THE Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin has described the findings of a report which shows half of all Irish Travellers die before the age of 40 as something more akin to “a third-world country”.

TRAVELLERS in Kerry have complained to gardaí that they were subjected to racist abuse from Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris.

The Equality Authority is calling on the Government to recognise Travellers as a separate ethnic group.

THE sister of murdered Traveller John Ward yesterday said Travellers had no intention of harming the man who killed her brother.

AN elderly Mayo farmer who shot dead a Traveller outside his home last week has been given garda protection amid fears he could be the target of a revenge attack.

VILLAGERS living near a controversial Travellers’ site in Britain yesterday told a planning inquiry they had been victims of “crass anti-social behaviour” and “appalling incidents of intimidation.”

John Breslin