Traveller body wound up after criticising State

A €1.2 million travellers’ rights campaign has been wound up because it failed to address the concerns of the settled community and State funds were used for ads critical of the Government.

State funding for the Citizen Traveller campaign was suspended during the summer after it ran advertisements criticising the Government's new criminal trespass legislation.

A value-for-money audit was subsequently ordered by the Department of Justice, which appointed consultants Talbot Associates to review the campaign’s activities.