Community group condemns violence outside church

A community development organisation for Travellers has condemned the violent scenes witnessed outside a church last Sunday, and praised the priest who intervened in the fracas.

A brawl between feuding Travellers occurred outside St Mary’s Church, Navan, Co Meath on Sunday, and was subsequently quelled by Fr Declan Hurley, who had just concluded Mass when the fight broke out.

Meath Travellers Workshop has since issued a statement in which it condemns “in the strongest possible terms the incident of violence that took place”.