[El Gato]

Doesn't say anything about Irish Travelers, but it does use the word Gypsies, which is more likely to refer to the Rroma peoples, especially with the name "Barras" Still Irish travelers is possible I suppose. There is a branch of the Rroma in England, which also had been in the US since around 1850.

[dennisw]

Doesn't say anything about Irish Travelers...............

An article a few days ago did use the word Travelers. As being the ones threatening Tony Martin as he's being released from prison

[mmartins]

Many folks outside of the UK are unaware of the ethnic and class issues involved here

The reasons so much official hostility is directed at Martin are simple

(a) his victim was a member of a "persecuted minority" which therefore, according to some, Can Do No Harm

(b) Martin himself is the kind of person the Russian communists called a "Kulak". In communist countries such people were shot and their lands siezed by the state.

Behind the mealy-mouthed statements condemning Martin lie some very vicious and unpleasant prejudices