A Traveller advocacy group has blamed members of the Travelling community for dumping a caravan on an illegal dump site - adjoining an overcrowded halting site - as a massive clean-up nears completion. It was someone from the (halting) site who put it there,” TVG chairperson, Breda O’Donoghue, said. TVG, which represents Travellers city-wide, has been campaigning for improved accommodation and conditions on the adjoining Spring Lane halting site for several years. Ellis’s Yard site in Ballyvolane last year. TVG will be pushing for Ellis’s yard, which is zoned for Traveller accommodation, to be used to alleviate overcrowding on the halting site.

Source: Irish Examiner March 06, 2019 17:26 UTC