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Dated term for Irish Travellers
"In the final analysis whatever the hypocritical mouthings of our "pillars of society" about aid to people overseas, it is on their treatment of the poor, the [Travellers] and the working class at home that they must be judged."
A 1976 article from The Bottom Dog, "working class paper of North Munster", by Jim MacNamara on an example of open hostility to Irish Travellers from a local Urban Councillor.
![An article from The Bottom Dog headlined: O'Meara and Itinerants, and showing a cut out of a Nenagh Guardian article titled: Mr O'Meara hits at itinerants' sympathisrs [sic]](https://posts.leftarchive.ie/attachments/thumbnails/d6c4e45f543c6dbc22f4a7811e46d927f7a3d9fcfb6fb93e04aea463eb56fc70/BD_travellers.jpeg)
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