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The attack on the Limerick woman is getting widespread coverage. I don't think the media is doing or not doing anything differently. They're reporting on the events - that's all they can do, they can't give opinions on news pages.

Certainly though, an opinion piece on the serious problems disproportionately affecting traveller communities would cause ructions.

I actually think the opposite. I remember it used to be general description of the perpetrators and the incident, and then you'd hit the general address much later in the article and it would be Rathkeale or such and such a halting site and you would put two and two together.

Now I think they are more upfront with who it involves, as they should be. There are decent travellers who suffer the consequences of the misogyny and lawlessness of some travellers, either directly or indirectly due to the discrimination/distrust towards travellers it provokes.

The perpetrators of this attack were women, but at the heart of the attack is a fairly patriarchal view of who is responsible for someone straying in their marriage. I doubt they attacked the husband who had the affair.

A traveller liaison nurse would be a big improvement in helping with the issues you describe .

I remember so many issues with particularly male traveller relations when working in acute hospital areas . We had to lay down the law and have security on alert nearby pretty much from the beginning .

Also there are so many problems with education that resource teachers in many schools around the country end up trying to" catch up" students who miss weeks on end and the parents are never asked why .

I think the days of defending this and other ethnic minority cultures while the costs to women and children are so high should be beyond over where Pavee Point is concerned .

There is no excuse for people being basically imprisoned in a violent archaic system and forced to live whatever life is expected of them by a group of largely uneducated males who espouse violence and feuding as well as criminal behaviour as a way of life .

I genuinely think the worst thing to happen was them being given that seperated legal status by the FG led government. Don't get me wrong there always was an 'us and them' divide but since that ruling it seems to be more pronounced, with little care given for laws of the land or even basic decency as plodder refers to above.

Then again, public decency and kindness has been slowly circling the drain for years now so it's not solely attributed to travellers. Social media has seen an end to that.

Agreed .

It's the battle of the Sulkies vs the Scramblers at the moment !