"D'ya like Dags?"

I don't see how this changes perceptions, its how travellers behave when parked down the road from you that decides that. Ugly or beauty is not skin deep its how one is that matters.

Mike.

What is a dag?

I'm sorry but how does that aim to "break boundaries"?

It's a pretty desperate state of affairs if you need to ask women to make themselves look pretty so that the other 'tribe' will accept you. That's about as primitive as it gets.

There are better ways of educating people about travellers. I'm sure at least a few of those girls have something significant between their ears.

psi wrote:

Was looking at the BBC Website and came across this.

Apparently the Traveller Magazine "Voice of the Traveller" has put together a calander called "Beauty has no Boundries" which features 12 Traveller s from Ireland aged 17-24.

Fair play to them for doing it, hopefully it will help erase some of the stigma attached to the travelling community here. Have to say, the one I've seen here is a very attractive .

Has anyone seen this or the rest of the images. I can't say I'm not curious.

Original BBC article here.

I do admit that is very good looking. However it is not down to beauty contests. Until the situation changes whereby the vast majority of travellers I encounter dont engage in anti social behaviour I could nay give a bollix. If you want to google it, travellers make up between 3% (according to the government figures) and 10% of the prison population (the 10% a figure quoted by a journo on the late late a few months back. Admitedtly i dont know what his source for the difference is). Unfortunately, I do not have a government commisioned report that proves that the majority of my and my friends encounters with travellers are negative, I am sorry (usually somebody on boards living in D4 will ask for one). Compared to something like 0.7% of the general population, either the gov or journo figure is a bit disproportionate. The likes of Pavee Point and other pressure groups standing up for the likes of Frog Ward and the Dunsink rioters does absoloutely nothing to boost their image. As a north Dubliner I care little for scumbags from my community, and would never seek to justfy their bull. Until the traveller pressure groups start doing the same and distabncing themselves from the scum in their community they will never make progress. Honestly, how many times have you seen north dublin communities march/protest in honour of people who rob the elderly. It is a disgrace and PP makes a show of itse3f campaiging for these people.

I noted the warning. That is not racist Karoma seeing as

1- One of the figures is by a government body. As admitted, I dont know where the journo gotr his figure, but that Martin Collins guy was on the show the same night and didnt challenge it

2- Travellers are as racially distinct as the settled community as hippies. white hare krishans, or any other group that goes away from the lifestyle of the general irish

And btw the question was basically asked as to whether this would lift the stigma. I answered that pretty girls do not undo decades of disrespect and so on against the law. I know I will probably be banned for racism against a group that are as racially different from me as people from Tallaght, but thats life./boards these days. Opinions are not welcome.