In January 2012 the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) announced the successful bidders for funds for new and improved Gypsy and Traveller pitches.  With £60m available for the 2011 – 2015 period, they announced grants of £47m: £38.8m for 620 additional; and £8.2m for 170 improved pitches. Lord Eric Avebury approached the Irish Traveller Movement [...]

Despite a lack of national data on the health status of Gypsies and Travellers, studies have revealed their health outcomes to be much poorer than the general population and also poorer than others in socially deprived areas.  Gypsies and Travellers have the lowest life expectancy of any group in the UK and experience an infant [...]

An Investigation by The Traveller’s Times can reveal that Gypsies and Travellers are in danger of being excluded from the volunteers who will carry the Olympic flame to the opening of the Olympic Games – making a mockery of the organising committee’s promise that the London Olympics 2012 will be “the most diverse ever”. The London [...]

Documentary from 1973 following members of traveller family the Mangans as they journey in their horse-drawn caravan to the annual Ballinasloe Fair in Co Galway. Watch this video in full by following this link: http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1129840