Traveller organisation urge politicians to learn from senator's offensive online remarks

A Traveller organisation has urged politicians to learn from a Fianna Fáil senator who has apologised for offensive online remarks.

Lorraine Clifford-Lee, who is who is running for Fianna Fáil in the Dublin Fingal by-election, has been heavily criticised for Twitter posts made in 2011 in which she made insulting and derogatory remarks about Travellers.