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Westmeath County Council has voiced its concerns for three Traveller families in Athlone who are living in day units, designed to support caravans or mobile homes.

Serious questions were raised at Monday’s city council meeting to have land in Ballindooley listed as a heritage site, which some councillors suspected was a means to block a proposed Traveller halting site for the area.

Gardai in Ballyhaunis backed up by members of the armed regional response unit swooped on an unofficial halting site in Ballyhaunis this week following the discharge of a shotgun at the site on Tuesday.

The High Court has ruled that a joint motion passed by Galway city councillors amending a Traveller accommodation plan for Galway city did not breach the council’s legal obligations to address accommodation needs of Travellers in its area.

A Traveller family have been moved on from a halting site on the Headford road following the execution of an eviction notice for illegally parking a caravan. Another family have until next week to vacate the area and find alternative accommodation.

The Travelling community are no strangers to hardship. And tragedy. And fire. The relationship between their beliefs and the spiritual power of fire and its ability to cleanse out past tragedies is well documented. The use of the flame to burn homes and vehicles in which someone has died has long been a custom.

Opposition is growing to plans by City Hall to provide two new Traveller halting sites in the city with councillors coming under public pressure to reject the proposals.

An angry group of Knocknacarra residents are calling on the Galway City Council to clarify details on a proposed traveller halting site on Ballymoneen Road, which they say contradicts the 2007 council’s framework study of the area.

The Galway Traveller Movement has said it will seek an investigation and a rapid clean-up operation following the discovery of racist graffiti on a caravan in Carrowbrowne this week.

The decision to omit halting sites from City Hall’s Traveller accommodation plan is an example of “extreme prejudice” and a “denial of Traveller’s cultural rights” which may also be open to legal challenge.