Trespass laws preventing Travellers from practising lifestyle, report says

Michael O’Flaherty, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights at the Traveller Suicide Awareness Day Commemoration ceremony in Limerick. Picture: Candie Imbert/Council of Europe/PA

Trespass legislation which “prevents Travellers from practising their nomadic lifestyle” should be repealed, according to the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights.

It is one of a series of recommendations in a memorandum on the human rights of Travellers and Roma in Ireland which was published by commissioner Michael O’Flaherty on Tuesday.