Come off it - justice has always weighed against Travellers - at the present time by the local popul;ation as well as the police and judiciary.
Some Christmases ago, a Travelling family here were burned out of their home by an accidental caravan fire (these fires are not always accidental).
Totally out of character, our Council agreed to house them over the holiday period in an empty house.
Local people set up a banner carrying picket outside their home over several days, demanding their removal and chanting "Travellers out, residents in".
The couple and their seven children were going to brazen it out due to the extremely cold weather, until the woman was stopped while shopping in town and told that if they didn't make themselves scarce they would be needing the services of the fire department again.
They spent their Christmas in a combination of a borrowed touring caravan, a small van and a tent made from a canvas sheet down at the local beach car park.
Travellers are in the process of being ethnically cleansed in these islands; within a decade or so they will have disappeared altogether from our roads if the process isn't quickly reversed - if it is not already too late.
Ignoring and denying the facts of what is happening to them makes you part of that 'cleansing' process.
We've been through this sort of discussion so many times before.
Jim Carroll