Tag Archives: Ireland

Remembering Carrickmines: “We Just Want Justice.”

Archived ArticlesBy Website Editor January 5, 2018

By Noelle Mann For the Irish Traveller community, the morning of Saturday, the 10th October 2015 will be forever associated with the tragic fire at a halting site in Carrickmines which took the lives of ten family members and an unborn child. Thomas Connors, 27, his wife Sylvia, 30, and their children Jim, five, Christy,…

Ireland’s First Traveller Only Forum

Archived ArticlesBy Ronan Cahill February 11, 2012 Leave a comment

Mincéirs Whiden is a Traveller only organisation with over 800 members spread throughout Ireland both north and south of the border. Mincéirs Whiden, Cant for Travellers Talking was set up as safe space where Travellers can come together to talk about issues affecting our community and create ways as a community to deal with these…