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Fri 07 Jul 1999An Irishman's Diary
Two reports in this newspaper on Wednesday: one, an 800-word account of how four Travellers were refused service in five different pubs after a wedding in Waterford. The other, a single paragraph describing of how some 40 gardai had to prevent a violent confrontation between 100 feuding Travellers in the public enclosure at the Galway races at Ballybrit.
Most of us intuitively understand the connection between four harmless men being denied drinks in Waterford and 100 not-so-harmless people in Galway, but we will not say it.
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