Great turn out for the @TravellersMH protest at the Dáil. Promises were made to the travelling community and broken repeatedly. It’s time they were kept. pic.twitter.com/fABLvVwdGW
— Daithi MacTaig (@DaithiMacTaig) May 31, 2022
This afternoon.
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
A National Traveller Mental Health Network Protest outside Leinster House.
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Fundamentally for someone to be happy they need to have prospects and agency in their life
The main way to get these things is education
You can’t have a decent education if you’re not in any one school under any one syllabus for more than a couple of months at a time before moving on, and then get hauled out at 15
The key to improving traveller mental health is in their own hands, they just have to do right by their kids.
15!? Sure you’d be married off by then, you might make it to 12 in school if you’re lucky.
There’s systemic obstacles and lack of resources (see the money allocated for Travellers not being spent at Local Authoriy level) in their way, but also as you say they really need to look within for a lot more of the answers. Realistically the govt is only ever going to pay lip-service to their community so they need to fix a lot of their core issues themselves or forever be trapped in this vicious cycle of deprivation, domestic abuse, ill-education, early death, higher rates of imprisonment, higher rates of suicide etc… the community has to raise itself up, it’s an ugly truth they need to face.
What is it that the local authorities need to be spending this money on in the first place? More resources are needed – for what exactly?
We really are an apartheid nation
It’s so emdemic we do not even realise
These are Irish people born Irish and we see the halting sites around
Oh yes no reason for bin or rubbish services or management of these sites because we all know travellers live in their own mess
Endemic
Sorry endemic
I suppose your subject is English
I am in ore of your intelligence
That, in fairness David, is the funniest thing you’ve ever posted ;)
Travellers mental health.
I thought this was another daa piece
Poor mental health is karma for all the mental anguish they inflict upon others.
It’s because they are at the bottom of the heap and we at the top of the heap have little chance of any services if you cannot apportion to pay
Call it karma revenge punishment
But the fact is they are the last in line