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President critical of the state's treatment of travellers

President Michael D Higgins has said that the “failure of State policy” across decades has left Travellers isolated from Irish society.

He spoke in NUIG at the start of a week of events marking six year anniversary since the Irish Government officially recognised the Travelling community as a distinct ethnic group.

President Higgins said that Ireland had not recognised the “the degree of exclusion and the neglect” of ethnic minorities.

“I’ve been thinking as I come to this point in my Preside