How many readers familiar with the sport of powerlifting in the Republic of Ireland know the name of Anthony McDonagh, a Galway Traveller who won nine All-Ireland Powerlifting championships in the heavyweight division, two...
Pavee Point attended a meeting with the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality on 26 February to discuss the shortcomings of Irish legislation in protecting vulnerable Roma and Traveller women from domestic...
The Sunday Times on March 20th featured an article by journalist Gemma O Doherty about the recording of Traveller children on the Garda PULSE database. The article highlighted the story of Traveller woman Caroline...
Nominations for Traveller Pride Awards 2014 Deadline for Nominations Friday 4th April at 5pm The Fifth Traveller Pride Awards will build on the success of the previous four award ceremonies and will take place...
The second quarterly report of iReport.ie has been launched, and highlights racism in social media as a significant obstacle. Pavee Point placed a specific report through iReport late last year when inappropriate terms were...
The National Council for Combating Discrimination, Romania’s anti-discrimination body, fined Romania’s President on 10 February for saying “very few Roma want to work” and “traditionally many of them live off stealing”, during a 2010...
Seminar Ethnic Data: A Tool to Combat Discrimination Date: 26th March 2014 Venue: Gresham Hotel, O Connell Street Time: 9.30-1pm Background: This seminar is the third in a series being organised by Pavee Point...
With changes made to the ‘in camera rule’ in January 2014, the media can now report on proceedings in family law and childcare court. This includes reporting of domestic violence cases. Under strict...
The 2nd 2014 TDN will take place on Tuesday, 20 May from 11am – 4pm at Pavee Point. The theme and speaker(s) have yet to be confirmed. Please contact a member of the Drug...
