A Traveller rights organisation has called for a Fianna Fáil councillor to be suspended over public comments he made as part of his opposition to local authority plans for the accommodation of a Traveller family in a suburb of Galway city.
Councillor Michael Crowe had called on Galway City Council not to proceed with plans to accommodate members of the Traveller community in a house that it has purchased in Renmore.
The former mayor said Traveller culture was “not conducive” to living with most settled communities, and claimed that “history has proven” it regularly leads to “confrontation and general uneasiness”.
