‘Suicide among Travellers is six times the national average and accounts for 11% of all Traveller deaths. This is shocking,” says John Collins of Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre on World Suicide Prevention...
Suicide accounts for 11% of all deaths within the Traveller community, according to the All Ireland Health Study 2010 and is six times higher than the national average. A variety of factors have led...
Pavee Point Health Team and the Irish Heart Foundation held a health day in Finglas on Monday the 7th of September. The Heart Foundation Roadshow set up in Avila Park and Cappagh Field so...
In the early 1990s, community activist Martin Folan approached artist Mick O’Dea about working with Travellers. O’Dea painted a series of nine close-up portraits of Traveller men and women, without any props or background...
Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre Press Statement June 9th 2015 Yes to Equality: Yes to Ethnicity Recognition? Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre today welcomes the questions posed by the UN Committee on Economic,...
Ethnic data collection within a human rights framework in Ireland What is the project? This project is part of an ongoing campaign for ethnic data collection within a human rights framework in Ireland by...
EduRom is an innovative European project that arises from the situation of many Roma people that is increasingly deteriorated. Many Roma people experience unemployment, low income, reduced life expectancy and poor quality of life. Moreover, Roma...
The Department of Justice and Equailty have set up a new National Traveller Roma Inclusion Steering Group which is being chaired by Minister Ó Ríordáin. Pavee Point welcomes this new body, which has committed...
Listen to Siobhan Curran, Roma Project Coordinator and Alex Petrovics, Roma peer researcher, talking to Dil Wickremhasinghe on Global Village, Newstalk. Siobhan and Alex discussed the national needs assessment that is taking place with...
Pavee Point is looking for more families in the Finglas area to participate in the Parent Child Home Programme. The Parent Child Home Programme is currently working with 10 Traveller families in the Finglas...
