People Before Profit Cork

Open Letter: Recognition of the Travelling Community as an Ethnic Minority in Ireland

We would like to lend our strong support to the motion recently before the Dail to recognise Travellers as an ethnic minority. This is a long overdue development. The preventable tragedy of Carrickmines brings this imperative further to the fore. History will not look kindly on those individuals and political parties voting to deny Travellers this basic right to ethnic recognition.

  • c/o Dr. Paul Downes, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University

  • Professor Gerry Whyte, Trinity College Dublin

  • Leah O’Toole, Marino Institute of Education

  • John Fitzgerald BL

  • Dr. Ann Louise Gilligan (retired), St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra

  • Dr. Padraig Carmody, Trinity College Dublin

  • Professor Ursula Kilkelly, School of Law, University College Cork

  • Dr. Stephen Kinsella, University of Limerick

  • William Binchy, Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin

  • Siobhan Phelan SC

  • Professor Aoife Nolan, School of Law, University of Nottingham

  • Professor Fionnuala Waldron, St. Patrick’s College, DCU

  • Marion Brennan, Early Childhood Ireland

  • Dr Mark Taylor, Goldsmiths, University of London

  • Dr. Marie Moran, University College Dublin

  • Professor Carmel Cefai, University of Malta

  • Dr. Audrey Bryan, St. Patrick’s College, DCU

  • Declan Dunne, Sophia Housing and Homeless Services

  • Denise Mc Cormilla, National Childhood Network

  • Dr. Maggie Feeley, UCD

  • Dr Anthony Cullen, Middlesex University, London

  • Dr. Sylwia Kazmierczak-Murray, Cabra School Completion Programme

  • Dr. James O’Higgins Norman, DCU

  • Dr. Padraic Gibson, The Bateson Clinic

  • Dr. Susan Pike, St. Patrick’s College, DCU

  • Fran Cassidy, Social Policy Consultant/Filmmaker

  • Dr. Maeve O’Brien, St. Patrick’s College, DCU

  • Frank Gilligan, Ballyfermot Local Drugs Task Force

  • Dr. Geraldine Scanlon, DCU

  • Dr. Catherine Maunsell, St. Patrick’s College, DCU

  • Dr. Majella McSharry, DCU

  • Dr Liam Thornton, UCD

read the original post here