A backgrounder to the protests by Travellers against a halting site in Mulhuddert which they perceive as a ghetto or shanty town.
Report shows Joe Higgins, Mulhuddart Residents and Travellers’ Committee, speaking on 30 August 1990.
Protesters on the site.
Interview with Desmond Connell, Archbishop of Dublin, on 4 September 1990, who says he is concerned with the conditions of the local community and indeed with those of the Travellers.
Four Courts, Dublin.
Interview with Kieran Pyne, Deputy Law Agent, Dublin County Council, speaking on 30 August 1990 and saying that the council will be advising the court there is an organised sphere of interference with council workers and machinery on site and will be pressing along those lines.
Jubilant protesters leaving High Court after the court found that the site contravened the council's own development plan.
Interview with John Courtney, Mulhuddart Residents and Travellers’ Committee, on 7 September 1990, delighted at the court finding and saying that, had the case gone against them, they would have been prepared to go to prison.
The reporter is Alasdair Jackson.
