Dr. Robbie McVeigh:

Yes and it is not so crazy that there are slightly different definitions of Traveller ethnicity within three different jurisdictions of the United Kingdom because the dynamic around Travellers and who they are is very different in the North, for example, where very often they are stereotyped as super-Irish. The discrimination that Travellers might experience in the Six Counties is actually much the same as that which another southern Irish person might experience but that dynamic will not be true in the South of Ireland.

I am conscious that I am probably getting far too academic about this but the reality is that absolutely everybody has an ethnicity. In this context, a lot of the legislation in the English case was around the "No Travellers" signs in pubs but a sign that said "Only Travellers" in a pub would discriminate against the Deputy in precisely the same way. In that sense, the Deputy's ethnicity is defined by his not being a Traveller. He will have lots of other positive ethnicities but the answer to the question he posed is "Yes", that is true,