Time to settle treatment of Travellers once and for all

Michael Fassbender’s words echo those spoken by Fr Dermot Lane two weeks ago. He asked if anything had changed in wider society’s relationship with the Traveller community since the Carrickmines fire, writes Clodagh Finn

ANYTHING that unites the outstanding talents of Brendan Glesson and Michael Fassbender is an event, but that’s not why their new movie Trespass Against Us is noteworthy.

The new Traveller crime drama in itself might not make an indifferent public sit up and take notice but let’s hope what Fassbender has said about it will. The Oscar-nominated actor said he took the role because he hoped it would “provoke conversation” about tribalism and, more specifically, the relationship between Irish Travellers and the settled community.