Traveller family with eight children living in one-room unit, inquiry finds

'Too many of our children are still living in cold and damp conditions, sometimes having to go to bed on damp mattresses,' said Anne Marie Stokes, a member of the Galway Traveller Community. File Picture.

Travellers are having their rights violated due to their substandard living conditions, according to campaigners, with more than 20 families "living in limbo" and one family — with eight children — residing in a one-room unit.

The latest inquiry on accommodation from the Galway Traveller community, as part of its Traveller Homes Now campaign, also highlights how in Carrowbrowne, one of Galway city’s largest sites, "children were left on the transient site for 18 months without heat and water throughout the height of the pandemic".