'We feel like rubbish’: Traveller children failed again

A new report exposes the severe violations of children's human rights due to insecure, unsafe and uninhabitable accommodation. 

 A dangerous embankment overlooking the home of a Traveller family at the Halting Site in Spring Lane, Ballyvolane, 2015. Picture: David Keane.

2021 has seen escalating international crises of social injustice and human rights violations. 

At home, Traveller children in Cork describe their living conditions as ‘hell’ and say they ‘feel like garbage’ because of conditions on their halting site. The publication of the 'No End in Site' report by the Ombudsman for Children is sombre reading.