Supreme Court Describes Traveller Community as “Vulnerable Minority”

Dangerous precedent being set. Local authorities are going to have to hire armed gaurds to defend their properties from those seeking to 'carpetbag' a piece of free land or a free house

I do, but I figured you’re not going to let that stop you 😂

It is quite laughable to think that Travellers are looking for housing off the council, when their way of life, or their 'culture' as they put it, plays no part in the state being able to provide housing to anyone at all.

If everyone had their way of life, there would be no council, no state, no anything.

edit: of course they are 'vulnerable'. Lots of people are vulnerable, that's why we organize our state in the way we do, a semi socialist state. It is not my fault travellers are vulnerable though.

no as such appeal would not be successful because there is nothing to appeal really as facts are facts.

Takes some balls to write that with a straight face.

Boards traveller hater: "Why is there such a disproportionate number of travellers in the prison population???"

Also Boards traveller hater: "Why is there legal immunity for travellers???"

The Judgement is quite complex and seems astonishing. Whilst Traveller and State lands specific (open to correction) this is going to open the Doors for Trespass wether intended or not. I can gaurentee Farmers and Local Authorities across the country are facing a world of difficulties and substantial expense evicting the Cultural Cohort as they start moving on to private property and local authority lands, watch this space.

Always amazes me how racism is accepted in Ireland just because its against travellers.

Young traveller men are committing suicide in droves because nobody employs them because of their background, they can't walk into a pub without being stared at, renting a property is out of the question as soon as a landlord hears the accent.

There are bad apples in every community but in Ireland its ok to stain an entire community o travellers because of the actions of a few. In my hometown a young traveller man seems to commit suicide every couple of months but once people find out its a traveller they couldn't care less. It's similar to how the Irish were treated in London or Australia in the past and really sad to see how we're no better than that.

The plight of young traveller men is nothing compared to what is done to young traveller women by their own community.

Taking them out of education at a young age, marrying them off in their mid-teens, turning them into baby factories, the hardship that the traveller community inflicts on the majority of its young women is a real problem. These are not isolated incidents, these are cultural aspects of traveller life that need to change.

Many of the problems that young traveller men have relate to their inability to live up to their misogynistic culture and their wish to reject it.

In the same way that mainstream Irish people needed to reject the toxic culture and heritage of the Catholic Church in order to move on and become a better more open and welcoming place, a similar process of rejecting the toxic masculinity of Traveller culture needs to happen. That comes from within though.

The government will hopefully update and clarify the laws so that Judges have a better idea what the government really intended with the original wording of the laws.

I'm guessing a spot of Tongue in Cheek in your response.

But to respond briefly, the crux of the problem is, the then Government made a commitment with, I presume an understanding such recognition doesn't mean there's going to be one law for ethnic groups and and another for the rest of the population . It's absolutely appropriate to recognise ethnic minorities, its equally appropriate for said ethnic minorities to observe laws that govern an entire population and not assume that ethnic recognition somehow means they can do as they please .

Wether you agree or not, what has happened is a convenient interpretation of what ethnic recognition means by a small cohort . Are you suggesting that has part of the recognition an entirely new and separate statute Book of Laws for the courts to work from should also have been drawn up🙄

At a basic level, if I decide, I like the look of my neighbours field, or a local authority land bank for example. Can I now just go off, buy a mobile home and set up camp on said lands unhindered 😳 seriously 🙄 how long do you think I'd get away with that I wonder . However what this judgement is essentially saying, if I'm a Traveller, off you go and do as you please and sure while your at, bring along a few pony's.

Apologies, as I said I sensed a bit of Tongue in Cheek in your post, I misinterpreted, I apologise