Systemic racismAnd they want to talk about systemic racism, asking whether being Traveller children contributed to their being abandoned by the State and wider society. There would have been myself, Christina, my sister Kathleen (3) and my brother Jimmy, Lord rest him. She made her Holy Communion a year late, with her sister Kathleen. “It was worse when you can’t stop it, and it’s your sister. I am angry about that.”Around 1997, her sister Kathleen O’Driscoll reported the rapes and abuse she had suffered to the Garda.

Source: The Irish Times June 20, 2020 00:00 UTC