Via Simon McGarr
Previously: Get A Roma Room
I don’t think @TV3Ireland get the concept of irony: #Roma pic.twitter.com/ApsY8PK7Qs
— Derek Flynn (@derekf03) October 23, 2013
In a Channel 4 News exclusive, Cordelia Lynch spoke with the mother of the 7 year old child from Tallaght taken into care by Gardai this week.
When the child’s mother is asked if there is a problem with the way Irish people view Romas, she replies:
“No we don’t have a problem with them but they do. We don’t know why, we haven’t done anything. We haven’t done crimes but they just hate us. Just because we’re wearing dresses and we’re Roma people. We haven’t done anything bad.”
Second Roma child taken by Irish police for DNA test (Channel 4 News)
Previously: Fears Of Racial Profiling
Very odd voicemail from @PaulCtv3 ranting of how he told gardai of Roma girl after tip.Shame he did nothing and waited for me to break it
— Mick McCaffrey (@mickmcsworld) October 23, 2013
@nicolatallantsw That I claimed to be source of story.I got a tip-off, ran the story.Not my business who told gardai what. Called journalism
— Mick McCaffrey (@mickmcsworld) October 23, 2013
TV3’s Paul Connolly (top) and Sunday World journalist Mick McCaffrey on the alleged child abduction/trafficking story.
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Breaking: Gardai have taken a child from a second Roma family – this time in Athlone, Westmeath. More to follow.
— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) October 23, 2013
UPDATE: Two-year-old boy returned to Midlands Roma family after DNA test (RTE)
Update:
@TrevHogan just looking at a parents piont of view trevor and if my own kids were taken from me. Your correct we will wait for facts .
— R & M Heffernan (@RM_Heffernan) October 23, 2013
An unambiguous (now deleted) tweet from the account of World 50K Walk Champion Rob Heffernan and his wife Marian.
Previously: Meanwhile In Tallaght
Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland
Following the case of Maria in Greece, above, Mick McCaffrey, of the Sunday World, is reporting that Gardaí took a seven-year-old blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl from a Roma family in Tallaght, Dublin yesterday and placed her in HSE care.
Mr McCaffrey writes:
“Gardaí received a tip-off from a member of the public that a six or seven year-old girl was living with a large Roma family but looked nothing like any of her supposed siblings.”
“Officers from the child protection unit attached to Tallaght station called to the home on Monday afternoon and spoke with two Roma adults. There were a number of children in the house and one was a young girl who had blonde hair and striking blue eyes. She looked nothing like anybody else in the house but the adults maintained that the girl was their daughter.”
“They were asked to produce a birth certificate but could not find one. In the meantime gardaí made contact with a hospital consultant in and asked if it was possible for Romas to give birth to blonde children, considering their natural dark complexions.”
“The consultant said that this would be extremely unusual.”
Blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl, 7, taken from Roma family in Dublin (Sunday World)
Pic: BBC