Travellers and Roma face most prejudice of any ethnic group in Ireland — report

The ESRI research found people were most comfortable having Travellers and Roma in their child’s class in school, less comfortable with having them as neighbours and least comfortable with having them in a relationship with their child. Picture: ESRI

Travellers and Roma face the highest levels of prejudice of any ethnic group in Ireland, according to new research.

The study by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) found people living in affluent areas were less comfortable with having Travellers as neighbours or in a relationship with their child than those living in disadvantaged areas.