Editing Irish Travellers (section)

===Work and income===
According to the 2016 Irish census, 4,524 of 9,055 Travellers over the age of 15 (50%) were "Unemployed having lost or given up previous job".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://statbank.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/saveselections.asp%.|title=Irish Travellers Aged 15 Years and Over 2011 to 2016 (Number) by County and City, Sex, Principal Economic Status and Census Year|access-date=8 October 2020}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> While 10,653 Travellers were in the labour force, the vast majority, 8,541 (80.2%), were unemployed. Almost 1 in 8 Travellers (11.3%) stated that they were unable to work due to a disability, which was almost three times the rate of the general population (4.3%).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cso.ie/en/csolatestnews/pressreleases/2017pressreleases/pressstatementcensus2016resultsprofile8-irishtravellersethnicityandreligion/|title= Press Statement Census 2016 Results Profile 8 - Irish Travellers, Ethnicity and Religion |website=Cso.ie|access-date=8 October 2020}}</ref> A report from the [[Economic and Social Research Institute]] and [[Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission]] report that Irish travellers are 10 times more likely to experience discrimination when seeking work in comparison to White Irish.<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://www.esri.ie/publications/who-experiences-discrimination-in-ireland-evidence-from-the-qnhs-equality-modules |title=Who experiences discrimination in Ireland? Evidence from the QNHS Equality Modules |last=McGinnity |first=Frances |last2=Grotti |first2=Raffaele |last3=Kenny |first3=Oona |last4=Russell |first4=Helen |date=2017-11-09 |publisher=ESRI and The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) |doi=10.26504/bkmnext342 |language=en|hdl=11572/328026 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>  

Many Travellers are breeders of dogs such as [[lurcher]]s and have a long-standing interest in horse trading. The main fairs associated with them are held annually at [[Ballinasloe fair|Ballinasloe]] (County Galway), Puck Fair (County Kerry), Ballabuidhe Horse Fair (County Cork), the twice-yearly Smithfield Horse Fair (Dublin inner city) and [[Appleby Horse Fair|Appleby]] (England).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thejournal.ie/smithfield-horse-fair-816055-Mar2013/|title=First 'new-look' regulated Smithfield Horse Fair on Sunday|first=Aoife|last=Barry|website=Thejournal.ie|date=March 2013 |access-date=2 August 2017}}</ref> They are often involved in dealing scrap metals, e.g., 60% of the raw material for Irish steel is sourced from scrap metal, approximately 50% (75,000 metric tonnes) segregated by the community at a value of more than £1.5&nbsp;million. Such percentages for more valuable non-ferrous metals may be significantly greater.<ref>''Recycling and the Traveller Economy (Income, Jobs and Wealth Creation)''. Dublin: Pavee Point Publications (1993)</ref>

Since the majority of Irish Travellers' employment is either [[self-employment]] or [[wage labour]], income and financial status varies greatly from family to family. Many families choose not to reveal the specifics of their finances, but when explained it is very difficult to detect any sort of pattern or regular trend of monthly or weekly income. To detect their financial status many look to the state of their possessions: their [[Travel trailer|trailer]], [[motor vehicle]], domestic utensils, and any other valuables.<ref name="Okely1983" />{{rp|page=63}}