August 2018 - Pavee Point

International Overdose Awareness Day – Training for Drug Users

Pavee Point is part of a coalition of homelessness and drugs organisations that have come together to rollout nationwide Naloxone training as part of International Overdose Awareness Day 2018 (31st August). The organisations – Merchants Quay Ireland, the Simon Communities of Ireland, Pavee Point, Novas, the Union for Improved Services, Communication and Education (UISCE), and the […]

Presentation Day – 5th September – on Roma Remembrance Visit to Auschwitz

Irish participants of the Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative 2018 will have a special presentation day here at Pavee Point, this Wednesday 5th September, 10.30am to 1.00pm. This group of 10 young Travellers and Roma will share their experiences of visiting Auschwitz concentration camp and meeting Roma Holocaust survivors in Krakow. There will be a short […]

Traveller Call for Equality at Papal Festival of Families

Photo by Bryan Meade. Missie Collins made a great call for better education, accommodation and health for Irish Travellers in her address to His Holiness, Pope Francis during the Festival of Families at Croke Park this week end. Missie was very clear in claiming a place for the ‘whole extended family’ of the Traveller community […]