Editing Irish Travellers (section)

===Discrimination and prejudice===
Travellers are often reported as the subject of explicit political and cultural discrimination, with politicians being elected on promises to block Traveller housing in local communities and individuals frequently refusing service in pubs, shops and hotels.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/world/europe/deadly-fire-exposes-irelands-contempt-for-traveler-minority-group.html?ref=world | title=Sympathy Is Short-Lived for Irish Minority Group After Deadly Fire | newspaper=The New York Times | date=29 October 2015 | access-date=30 October 2015 | author=DALBY, DOUGLAS}}</ref> Settled populations often misinterpret Travellers' cultural differences, which results in their marginalization across different sectors of society.<ref name="McElweeJacksonCharles2003" />{{Rp|page=105}}

A 2011 survey by the Economic and Social Research Institute of Ireland concluded that there is widespread ostracism of Travellers in Ireland, and the report concluded that it could hurt the long-term prospects for Travellers, who "need the intercultural solidarity of their neighbours in the settled community.&nbsp;... They are too small a minority, i.e., 0.5 per cent, to survive in a meaningful manner without ongoing and supportive personal contact with their fellow citizens in the settled community."<ref name=Irishtimes>{{cite news|last=Holland|first=Kitty|title=Young among the most prejudiced, expert finds|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0518/1224297221192.html|access-date=18 May 2011|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=18 May 2011|archive-date=21 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021180914/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0518/1224297221192.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The general prejudice against Travellers hinders efforts by the central government to integrate Travellers into Irish society.<ref name=NYT102915>{{cite news|author1=Douglas Dalby|title=Sympathy Is Short-Lived for Irish Minority Group After Deadly Fire|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/world/europe/deadly-fire-exposes-irelands-contempt-for-traveler-minority-group.html|access-date=30 October 2015|work=The New York Times|date=29 October 2015|quote=Such is the animus toward Travelers that almost half of the country's 31 localities returned the money allocated by the central government for Traveler accommodations this year.}}</ref> Because Travellers are a minority group within Ireland and the United Kingdom, they have always faced discrimination on the basis of their ethnicity as Travellers. They experience discrimination in not having equal access to education, being denied service in pubs, shops, and hotels,<ref name="Velupillai 2015 381"/> and being subject to derogatory language.

In 2016, the USA's [[Country Reports on Human Rights Practices]] for the United Kingdom stated that Irish Travellers reported receiving discrimination on "racial or ethnic grounds" in the country, and stated that the High Court had ruled that the [[Government of the United Kingdom|government]] had illegally discriminated against Travellers by unlawfully subjecting planning applications to special scrutiny.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index.htm#wrapper|title=Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016|website=State.gov|access-date=2 August 2017}}</ref>

The [[European Parliament]] Committee of Enquiry on Racism and [[Xenophobia]] found them to be among the most discriminated-against [[ethnic]] groups in Ireland<ref>Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education by Patrick Alan Danaher, Máirín Kenny, Judith Remy Leder. 2009, p. 119</ref> and yet their status remains insecure in the absence of widespread legal endorsement.<ref name="tinker">''Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education'' by Patrick Alan Danaher, Máirín Kenny & Judith Remy Leder</ref> Anti-Traveller racism and discriminatory attitudes extend to those working in social services including the Gardai, which presents additional issues to the Traveller community.<ref name="Garrett" />{{Rp|page=123}}