Traveller exclusion: revealing an open secret

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This year, a whistleblower revealed a shocking secret. A popular British holiday camp business kept a 'blacklist' of Irish surnames, distributed to staff to bar customers from booking. In this episode, Naomi and Tim dig into the incident to explore how a policy meant to exclude Travellers inadvertently swept up a large part of the general Irish population. We hear from a veteran campsite and holiday park worker who tells us the practice of excluding Travellers is rife in the industry across Britain and Ireland. And we speak to Martin Beanz Warde, a comedian, podcaster and host of the Haz Beanz Show about how systemic discrimination works and his own experience of exclusion from venues. Check out the Haz Beanz Show here: https://thehazbeanshow.com/ Follow us on Facebook and Twitter at @PassportIrish. If you enjoyed this episode, do give us a good review in your podcast app and share it with your friends. Bonus episodes are published for our supporters over at www.patreon.com/theirishpassport

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0:00.0	Hello. Welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.4	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay.
0:16.7	Okay. Hello, and welcome back to the Irish Passport podcast. Today we're looking at a scandal,
0:40.3	which dominated British and Irish headlines earlier on this year. But this wasn't just any
0:44.9	scandal. It got right to the heart of systemic discrimination against one of the most
0:49.8	marginalized communities in both the UK and Ireland, the Irish Traveller Community. It revealed that not only
0:56.6	was large scale and systemic discrimination against travellers still rife, but that companies could be
1:01.8	shockingly blasé about integrating discriminatory policies into their everyday businesses.
1:07.0	Right. We're talking about the Ponton scandal that broke into the headlines a few months ago.
1:12.2	In early March 2021, it emerged that the British Holiday Park operator Pontins had a black list of certain surnames,
1:19.7	which staff were instructed to exclude from bookings.
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