"I am just thinking about whether it is right to discuss stuff like people being taken into care."
Bloody nonsense in the light of the fact that many Traveller children are taken into care because the state will not allow Travellers the rights to bring their children up with electricity running water and sanitation
Evictions of Travellers from 'illegal' sites, lading to them having nowhere else to go commonly lead to parents forced into emergency accommodation and their children taken into care
In Mary's case, the powers that be decided that a lone blind woman on the road was an unfit mother (despite the fact that the Travelling community is such that it would have rallied in support of someone in her position)
Some of course, would love to be able to sweep this inhumanity under the carpet rather than come to terms with the ethnic cleansing of Travellers that is systematically taking place today
Jim Carroll