Sir, - I wish to bring to the notice of your readers the treatment of travellers looking for spaces to live during the summer.
At the Pidgeon House roundabout where travellers had taken up residence on a grass patch, works have been effected which prevents them or anybody else using this space for a temporary stop-over point. Expensive armco-style barriers have been put in place.
In Djouce Woods where the travellers have moved into one of the car parks, I have noticed that all the other car parks have been shut with large boulders at the entrances. A mile-long earthen mound has been created to prevent the travellers moving in on other previously free spaces.
It would be preferable if the money and expense that has been used in shoring up these spaces was diverted into creating hospitable stop-over summer sites for travellers.
We are squeezing this legitimate ethnic group off the land. Are we going to get rid of travellers and then preserve a few in a reservation and call it a heritage site? - Yours, etc., Sean Owens,
Killester, Dublin 5.