Travellers’ boycott of €2m centre ‘extortionist’

TRAVELLER families were yesterday branded “extortionists” by a junior minister over their boycott of a €2 million purpose-built accommodation centre in Limerick.

Travellers’ boycott of €2m centre ‘extortionist’
Wed, 24 May, 2006 - 01:00
Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

Seven Traveller families are refusing to move into the halting site at Castletroy because it has no stabling for horses.

The development was completed five months ago by a local authority.

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