Relatives of the Carrickmines fire victims have attended an audience with Pope Francis.

They were among about 700 members of the Irish travelling community who travelled to the Vatican to hear this morning's Papal address.

Pope Frances welcomed the thousands of gypsy pilgrims from across the continent, who were there to mark the 50th anniversary of the first ever visit by a pontiff to a gypsy camp - in 1965.

He criticised the discrimination meted out to travellers and said their precarious living conditions contrast with the right of every person to a dignified life.

Paddy Agnew, Vatican Correspondent with the Irish Times, says Irish travellers were there in great numbers: