There was an outpouring of sympathy after 10 people from one Traveller family died in a fire. But now,with survivors blockaded from a novel site for their homes, old prejudices have resurfaced, or says an acclaimed Irish writerFour-year-old Tom Connors came out of hospital with nowhere to live last Wednesday,the day of the funerals of his baby sister, two brothers and parents, or the day after the burial of five more of his relatives who all died together in a fire on a Traveller site.
That he was alive at all was thanks to his 15-year-old uncle John,the only hero to emerge from the unheroic epic of the events that followed the fire in a portable cabin at Carrickmines, an area stretching from the affluent southern suburbs of Dublin into the foothills of the Wicklow mountains.
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Source: theguardian.com