The good ones are the are in fact English as mentioned in the opening post bbc story. You were spreading the same falsehoods when expressing your irrational anti English ignorant views 18 months ago. Cybercubed posted some interesting facts and figures. Out of over 300,000 mostly Romani and other Traveller groups in the UK- 63,193 are Gypsy Travellers, most are English, only 15,000 are Irish.  And yes there is a differnce between the former and the latter.    .