55% wouldnt have Travellers as Community Members.
35% Avoid Travellers
75% wouldnt have a Traveller as a co-worker.
78% wouldnt have a Traveller as a Neighbour.
83% wouldnt employ a Traveller.
91% wouldnt have a Traveller as a family member.
85% wouldnt have a Traveller as friend
We lost a 13yr old Traveller to suicide yday. Travellers dying by suicide are getting younger and younger. Please stand with us. We have to do our best to end Traveller hate so we can save lives. Rest in Peace Baby. 💔
My stats as a Traveller woman are scary!
I am now 42yrs blessed as only 50% of us reach 39yrs.
3% of us live past 65yrs. Our suicide rates 6x higher. These stats are old yet not shocking Irish Society into change! ???
With all the disgusting comments floating about the heartbreaking tragedy in
#Tallaght
it should be clearer than ever before Irish Travellers and working class people need to stand firmly together against racism and classism.
RIP Angels.
As a community we have lost three beautiful children to suicide this week. We do not need anti Traveller racist comments right now. We need human compassion and solidarity. Those who are speaking in hate give it a rest let us mourn. 😭
Ive noticed a trend on Irish twitter when people talk about suicide hundreds,thousands of likes/RTs but when Travellers talk about 11% of all our deaths being suicide,82% of us affected by suicide in a population of 40,000 people, very little reaction.
So as a parent im preparing my children how to respond to the use of the racist slur Kna*ker can you please educate yours not to use it ? So Traveller children dont have to be subjected to the pain all the generations that went before them ? Just one simple action you can take.
My heart goes out to Margaret "Twink" the mother of Lisa,Chelsea and Christy RIP and all their family,friends as they start to say their goodbyes today at 2pm to these beautiful children. Rest in power Angels. May you all have find the strength to get through your pain. 💔
Today I turned the big 43yrs! Maybe the norm to most but when only 3% of Travellers reach 65 yrs.
And so many of my family, community never did. RIP.
It makes me feel so blessed.
#TravellerPrideWeek
‘Come forward and ‘don’t be afraid’ - Helen, whose father James O'Reilly was jailed for 20 years for the repeated rape and sexual abuse of his seven daughters and his younger sister, appeals to other victims of abuse. More
@rtenews
.
Why isnt
#Carrickmines10
trending today? oh yeah they were Travellers who burnt to death. Ireland may not care but Travellers do.
Lord Rest their poor souls.
Tomorrow I am 42😀 each birthday I reach I think of all my aunts, uncles, cousins, friends within our community that have not. Rip. The fact that only 3% of us live past 65yrs 😭
I am truly blessed in many ways yet heartbroken for everyone we have lost way too young 💔
I have never been so disgusted,angry in all my life as woman. A man actually thought it was ok to masturbate while women united in grief,anger,love for a murdered woman during an online vigil. RIP. 💔
Men own your shit!This is not on us.
#shewasgoingforarun
So excited to be starting my new role as National Traveller Youth Strategy Coordinater on Tuesday! Our youth need to be heard. Decades of being left behind by society. The impact that has on on us means we have a wide range of young Traveller voices.
My aunt suffered in a mother n baby home as a young Minceir beoir. She never spoke of it.
Her child taken from her against her will. Leaving her in pain shaping the rest of her life , leading to her death. She died a year older than me.
RIP 😭
Twelve years ago I felt like ending my life by suicide. External oppression and internal oppression as a Traveller woman made me feel like I didnt belong to either community. Internal oppression hurt me more. Yet here I am 😁
When I tell people i am Traveller,saying to me
" Oh but you are not like other Travellers" is not a compliment, its an insult to me and all Travellers.
You cant imagine what it feels like as a Traveller Mother dropping your babies into an education system that failed generations of your family, yet hoping this is the generation that brings positive change for us.
Why is it assumed because my husband is Muslim,we do not celebrate Christmas? Two faiths can live side by side in love, time we learn that as a society.
Im so humbled to note I have 7000 followers. Means so much knowing my voice as a Minceir beoir is valued in Irish Society by allies.
Thank you for being with me on my journey towards Minceir Equality.💞
So my nephew was told today at School by another child "no one likes K*nackers thats why that house was burnt down."
We have break the circle of Hate, it has to stop with our generation!
Such a heartbreaking loss of young lives in Tallaght.Two beautiful sisters and brother. I really have no words. My deepest sympathy to their family,friends all who loved them. Hope and pray the family will be met with compassion,love, supported at this extremely difficult time.
Ireland is not Racist?
When my husband and I were approved for a mortgage the bank advised us not to buy in the estate we had choosen as it was "known as the ghetto of the town full of non nationals"
I replied "my kind of estate!" We are so happy here and made lots of friends.
Its exhausting having to say this over and over. I or any other Traveller is not accountable for the wrong doing of some Travellers. We should not be expected and asked to comment every single time. As non Travellers are you regarding members of your community?
Little reminder ,Travellers spell Traveller with a capital T always. If we were not continued to be assimilated we would travel being true to our nomadic identity, so we are Traveller not traveller. In Cant Pavee or Minceir. Its exhausting correcting people all the time.
Suicide rates for Traveller women are 6x higher than our settled counterparts due to living a life under constant attack both externally and internally while being failed by mental health services. May she rest in peace 💔
Thank u everyone for your love and support yday. Love always wins over hate. The anti Traveller prejudice on twitter yday was vile and shocked me coming from people who should know better. But here I am today spreading my Minceir love as always.
The tweet calling for our genocide maybe deleted but the hurt is still very real for Travellers who saw it. Hitting delete doesnt take our pain away. Why is this racist behaviour set as an accepted standard for our politicians?
Heartbreaking a young Traveller man killed in car crash hours before his wedding. 💔 I hope Limerick takes care of the families during this tragedy. RIP.
For those who still fail to understand I am one Traveller woman within a community of 40K+ in Ireland. Like you I am responsible for my actions not that of 39,999K + other Travellers.
Much love to all who reported anti Traveller tweets over last few days.❤ Please do just that report,block.
Please do not RT, comment, screenshot and tweet. If you do we see it along with all others we see.
It is so hurtful for Irish Travellers to see this hate all the time.
If you see Travellers being wrongly refused service in pubs,clubs,etc.. don't be a bystander call it out ? Leave the pub find one that is not racist.
#IsItOver
My little girl came home crying from school today early,said she was sick. But she wasnt she was upset by a little boy touching her bum on the playground. All innocent but this is where consent starts on the playground parents.
A qoute tweet declared me "rape enabler" cause I welcome refugees.
Darling our country has always been full of rapists. We don't even have to look that far just look at what happened in our Catholic Church ?
#RefugeesWelcome
To the men saying to me " oh he must need help, has mental health issues" you are part of the problem. I know plenty of men who have mental health issues who would never dream of such a vile act of disrespect for a murdered woman!
#AshlingMurphy
Some major positive news 19 Traveller women graduate in Community Leadership UCC. Like anyone when given equitable opportunities we can be high achievers.
#Minc
éirRights
I am so tired of "I have had bad experiences with some Travellers" like it gives one the right to be racist towards all of us. I have lost count of non Travellers who did me wrong deeply hurt me impacting on my life opportunities.But I married a non Traveller,see the difference😉
A Mayo man heads to Dublin for the weekend. Every pub he tries enter he is met with "sorry we don't serve people from Mayo. There was a Mayo man in here caused trouble before."
"But there are thousands of people in Mayo surely you are not holding me accountable for all in Mayo?"
The first time i was called a K*acker I was 5 just started school, didnt know what it meant or why the other child looked at me with such hate. That was the day I learned I was hated because i am Traveller.
Parents need to stop teaching children hate but teach love & acceptance.
Parent teacher meetings and both my kids are flying it.. so can we end the stereotype that
#IrishTravellers
don't value nor want education.
We always did- it was simply denied to us for decades while we suffered racism at the same time.
If you believe as a Traveller activist here I am having a postive impact please help me build my platform further so I can reach even more allies who stand with Irish Travellers and want a just Ireland for all. Hopefully the bigger reach the more of a positive impact. ❤
She was just 12yrs a baby who lost her sister to suicide too. Lord rest them both. Failed on every level possible. I hope their family can survive such pain. 💔
We need our Traveller mental health strategy now!
Suicide rates for Traveller women are 6x higher than our settled counterparts due to living a life under constant attack both externally and internally while being failed by mental health services. May she rest in peace 💔
Really makes me sad when others say Ireland is an inclusive society. I know it may be your experience but please listen to Irish Travellers and our experience of ethnic cleansing for decades.
How heartless do you have to be to comment anti Traveller racism and hate under an article where a Traveller woman talks about loosing 28 members of her family to suicide. No wonder our mental health is way beyond crisis point!
Truly sickening sections of the media are posting articles of the
#Tallaght
tradegy dip feeding details every few hours! Have a little compassion and respect for those left behind. They won't benefit from your constant coverage. You are adding to their suffering!
RIP Angels.
A privileged woman will never know what it is like to be a marginalised woman therefore vital we are at the table making decisions impacting on our lives.
"In a country that suffered terribly at the hands of the Nazis during the second world war, the unthinkable had started to happen: pogroms against an ethnic minority, in this case, the Roma, have somehow become commonplace."
Homeschooling is hard work! But spare a taught for Minceiri who dont have access to wifi being evicted from the roadside even in a pandemic or whose parents dont have the literacy skills needed to homeschool 💔
I've just signed this Open Letter as a Traveller calling for our human rights to be protected, respected & implemented . Will you show solidarity by signing?
#mentalhealth
I am sick to my stomach, can't get the image out of my mind. He on the other hand is most likely laughing,feeling powerful. Well watch how powerful you are when held accountable for your vile actions.We can't even mourn the murder of one of us without be attacked.
#AshlingMurphy
I just want to say thank you to all my followers for you solidarity and support. I joined Twitter as another means of raising the Traveller voice, there are millions of non Travellers on twitter ,very few Travellers , we need your support to raise our voices.