What do Travellers like to be called?

Irish Travellers usually refer to themselves as Travellers, Pavee or Mincéirs. There are believed to be 300,000 or more Gypsy and Traveller people currently living in the UK. There are Gypsies and Travellers across every profession – nurses, police, social workers, company directors and so much more.



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Data from the All-Ireland Traveller Health Study suggest that Traveller men have a life expectancy of only 63 years (vs 78 in the general population). For Traveller women, that figure is 71 years (vs 82 in the general population). This means Irish Travellers die about 11-15 years earlier than the general population.

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