Travellers say ‘family feud’ tag being used carelessly

SECTIONS of the media came under fire from a Travellers’ spokesperson yesterday for giving a ‘sensationalist’ slant to serious acts of violence in the Traveller community.

Davey Joyce called on the media to be more careful about ascribing acts of violence among Travellers to family feuds, or family rows.

Speaking in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a 43-year-old unemployed man in Tralee, he said such terms dismissed the seriousness of matters in people’s minds and could lead the public to dismiss them as Traveller issues.