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Wednesday October 14, 2015 20:10 by Tom Murray - WSM
Last weekend, ten people died in a fire at a halting site in South Dublin. Thomas Connors, Sylvia Connors, Willie Lynch, Tara Gilbert, and Jimmy Lynch and five children lost lives. Their deaths are a tragedy, and we mourn their loss. But we are also angry. Because we know the loss of their lives was not the outcome of chance or blind fate. Our society, its laws and its institutions are designed to marginalise, to penalise and to discriminate against Travellers (traditionally itinerant ethnic group) . So long as we accept these forms of oppression and exploitation, tragedy will follow tragedy. Take for instance the families’ housing conditions. The Glenamuck Road site where they lived was officially a ‘temporary halting site’ of four bays. But six families had been living there for more than six years in three portacabins and two caravans [1]. Overcrowding and unfit accommodation undoubtedly created a fire hazard. Margaret O’Leary (of Southside Traveller Action Group) said: “They were just beautiful, lovely families. The site up there, they had it spotless, really nice, flowers and everything. But they were living in portacabins up there. If they were living in bricks and mortar I’m sure some of them could have been saved. The families here are devastated and angry too. I’m angry” [1]. |
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