There are badly behaved people in all communities. I can’t undershot we are so careful about the way we use language nowadays and so aware of its impact and yet can still generalise about all travellers.
There are travellers who work in offices, local government, teachers, there’s a traveller woman in the Irish equivalent of our Parliament (Dail)
Can you imagine how hard it is to push through that as a child when you want to study, get educated, join a profession?
It is some people, only some. The news only focuses on the criminal element in the same way that knife crime (for example) identifies some groups in London but we don’t accept it is ok to say all of the people from that group are involved.
This is what upsets me - we extend so much understanding to some groups yet none to travellers - it’s the discrepancy and that discrepancy is based on a lack of will to recognise the issues the community experience. How are things ever going to improve if we don’t find ways to make it work as we do for other communities?