Recently, there was a great media hoo-ha over a group of Roma families who encamped on a roundabout in north Dublin.
Subsequently, an Ireland.com head-2-head poll (published 6/8/2007) asked the question:
"Do the Roma face discrimination?".
62% of respondents believed the answer was "no".
Most rational people would accept that the Roma suffer, and have suffered, widespread discrimination in their own countries of origin and abroad. There is also the minor fact that between 220,000 to 500,000 Roma are thought to have been murdered by the Nazis when their countries were invaded during the Second World War.
So, for visitors to the Irish Times website to issue a blanket denial on the issue of discrimination - on foot of a minor occupation of a north Dublin roundabout - really is quite puzzling.
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