The St John of God Trust wants Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to scrap plans for Traveller accommodation in the grounds of its hospital in South Dublin. The trust’s lands are among just eight sites identified by the council as suitable for new Traveller housing. The council identified the St John of God lands as a Traveller accommodation site in 2000. Geraldine Dunne, director of the Southside Traveller Action Group, said very few sites in the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown area had been designated for new Traveller accommodation. “The St John of God’s site has been earmarked for at least a couple of decades and it is absolutely needed.

Source: The Irish Times May 28, 2021 00:00 UTC