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Mincéiri women and children and their decorated caravan on route to Cahirmee Horse Fair Elinor Wiltshire, Buttevant, Co. Cork, July 1954

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Irish Travellers - Wikipedia

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Some 50 per cent of Travellers die before their 39th birthday and some 70 per cent fail to live past the age of 59. The startling findings contained in a new book on Traveller mortality suggest that life expectancy in the Traveller community is equivalent to that of settled people in Ireland in the 1940s.

50% of Travellers die before 39 - study

Some 50 per cent of Travellers die before their 39th birthday and some 70 per cent fail to live past the age of 59.

Traveller babies three times more likely to die than those in settled population

Infant mortality rate is falling and more Traveller children are going to secondary school – report

Only 13% attend secondary school compared with. 92% of the general population and only 1% go to college.

Traveller children being channelled into unofficial ‘Traveller schools’, Oireachtas told

Less than 1 per cent of community in 3rd level education education, committee told

Suicide rates are 7 times higher for them. 1 in 11 deaths are by suicide.

Government must tackle ‘silent killer’ of suicide in Traveller community

National Traveller Mental Health Network calls for the government to invest in specific services for the Traveller Community as suicide rate

One in four women in prison is from a Traveller background, despite the ethnic group making up just 0.7% of the overall population.

Call for change on disproportionate  numbers of Travellers in prison

Traveller women make up 22% of the adult prison population

The government committed cultural genocide against them and got away with it.

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An Irish Traveller Love Story:

SURE I LOVES YA

DOESN'T I RIDES YA AND BUYS YA CHIPS?