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Mon 12 Dec 2002Travellers told no alternative to housing on offer"They just told us 'take it or leave it'. They told us there'd be plenty of others who would take the houses if we didn't," says Ms Kathleen Maughan.Ballymun Regeneration Limited (BRL), she says, effectively told the 276 Travellers like herself, currently living in the over-crowded St Margaret's halting site, that whether they liked the housing being offered or not, there would be no alternative.Some 21 houses are planned for some of the Travellers of Poppintree, although 42 Traveller families signed up for regeneration housing in 2001. The houses that are planned will face onto the back wall of an industrial centre, without a play area and with very little parking.