“We have waited too long; we desperately need the department to fund this,” says Shay L’Estrange, coordinator with Ballyfermot Traveller Action Project.
“People have much richer lives, and they’re much more textured, and deep and emotional, and full of care, and struggles and heartbreak,” author John Bissett says.
Those with good English, like him, should be tapped as a resource to help give others a route out of isolation and a chance to contribute more to Ireland, he says.
But they would want, they said, to add a set-back storey on top of one of the proposed apartment blocks on the site, which locals have already said are too tall.
Streets named after people who profited from the enslavement of others – like Nassau St and the La Touche Bridge – should be renamed, says Councillor Nial Ring.
In the Spar on New Street South, it often had long queues. Now locals will have to travel further for pensions, social protection, disability allowances, and postal services.
The narrative that no Georgian person has a good reason to flee their country in the Caucasus for safety in Ireland is unfair, migrant rights advocates say.
