Anti-Traveller Thuggery on the Increase

Ferd
Wed, 01 Feb 1995 09:00:00 +0000
Racism, Travellers, Migration / racism, National, Newspaper, News, Patricia McCarthy

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.