Relationship made toxic by hypocrisy - Travellers in society

THERE is hardly a subject of public discussion or concern in Ireland more alive with hypocrisy than the prickly debate around Travellers’ rights and Travellers’ place in our communities. 

Even the never-ending culture war around our policy of outsourcing abortion seems honest in comparison.

Advocacy groups chide us, saying we do not do enough to support a group that asserts what it describes as its unique culture, by demanding that it remain outside but be supported by this society, a group that wishes to remain nomadic but demands respect from a society whose social disciplines, values and aspirations it rejects and often challenges.