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Title: Attacks on Travellers Author: Patricia McCarthy Date: 1995 Language: en Topics: Ireland, racism, Workers Solidarity Source: Retrieved on 24th November 2021 from http://struggle.ws/ws95/travell44.html Notes: Published in Workers Solidarity No. 44 — Spring 1995.
Over the past year, there has been a series of physical attacks on
Travellers in different parts of the country. Travellers were attacked
in Glenamaddy in New Ross, Wicklow and Bantry.
In Bantry, a group of hired vigilantes wearing balaclavas broke into the
caravan of an elderly Traveller couple. They hit the woman in the face
with a pick axe handle, breaking her nose and giving her dozens of
stitches.
In Bray, thugs burnt the caravan of a local Traveller family, and their
van. When the Council offered them another site in Rathnew, the locals
chased them out of there too. No-one has been charged with these
attacks.
The rise in racism against Travellers is happening all over Europe.
Gypsies and Travellers from Eastern Europe are seen as fair game for
racial abuse and attacks.