âPeople sometimes come for a look around and they are shaming us. They are looking at us and laughing. It is discrimination,â says Margaret, who is proud to be a Traveller, but bridles at the discrimination endured.
âWhen we go to shops people walk away. We were in a [SPORTS]team once and one girl said, âTravellers,â and she made a face,â she told The Irish Times, who spoke to her with the permission of parents.
Her eight- year-old brother Tommy would love to live in a house, too. Often, he says, he watches rats running around the halting site. He asks if this reporter works for the council.
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Flight attendant and childrenâs book author Katerra Locke (left)
and her 6-year-old son Elias (right) show their books and a
âBlankie The Magic Blanketâ at Lockeâs Linebaugh Library book
signing recently. Locke said she was inspired to write childrenâs
books to document their travels. Elias said his favorite activities
on their travels have been swimming and boogie boarding on their
trip to Hawaii.
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Flight attendant and childrenâs book author Katerra Locke thumbs
through the pages of her first childrenâs book âElias and the Magic
Blanket Turks & Caicosâ at her Linebaugh Library book signing on
Flight attendant and children s book author Katerra Locke thumbs through the pages of her first childrenâs book âElias and the Magic Blanket Turks & Caicosâ at her Linebaugh Library book signing on earlier this month. Itâs the first of two travel books with her son Elias, 6 (right), as the main adventurer. Each story documents their travels together. Itâs just us, and our magic blanket, said Locke.
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