Month: June 2020

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre is delighted to welcome the historic first-time appointment of an Irish Traveller to Seanad Eireann.  Congratulations to Eileen Flynn. She is a Traveller woman committed to Traveller rights, community work and feminism and her appointment to Seanad Eireann will benefit an intersection of people and we wish her the best […]

To celebrate 15 years in Dublin Pride and working to support LGBTQ Travellers and Roma – Rosaleen McDonagh, Traveller woman with a disability, playwright and Commissioner to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission takes a look back: A Certain Kind of Pride There has always been gay Travellers. We all knew of somebody who […]

Anastasia Crickley, Pavee Point Chairperson, has been appointed as a member of the Government’s Anti-Racism Committee and sets out her hopes for this work. I welcome the opportunity to contribute from my experience and work over the years to the Anti Racism Committee commencing its work today (18 June 2020). I do so reiterating the calls […]

Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre welcomes the naming of Travellers as a priority group in the Department of Health’s long-awaited policy document ‘Sharing the Vision: A Mental Health Policy for Everyone’ published yesterday (17 June 2020)  However, it is disappointing that ‘Sharing the Vision’ does not go as far as to include targeted actions aimed […]

Pavee Point extends its sympathy and support towards the Reilly family – the daughters and younger sister of James Reilly who has been convicted of repeated rape and sexual abuse of the daughters and his younger sister over a 23 year period.  “The courage and strength of the survivors of such horrific abuse and neglect […]

Tipperary Rural Travellers Project would like to publicly state their support for the Reilly family in thewake of the recent court judgement. We cannot even begin to imagine the pain and trauma thefamily has endured, and we want also to commend the Reilly women in the courage, determination and humanity they have shown under such […]

Pavee Point welcomes many of the commitments regarding Travellers and Roma outlined in a draft Programme for Government agreed and published today –  but highlights the challenges of implementation. “The Coronavirus pandemic has shown that we can achieve things that previously seemed impossible,” said Ronnie Fay, Co Director Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre.  “Travellers […]

Pavee Point very much welcomes the appointment of Traveller woman Rosaleen McDonagh as a commissioner to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. Rosaleen is a Traveller woman with a disability, playwright and IHREC Disability Advisory Committee member and will bring a wealth of experience and analysis to her work with the Commission. Rosaleen was […]

Joint statement from Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, Irish Traveller Movement, National Traveller Women’s Forum,  Minceirs Whiden,Exchange House Ireland, Involve, The Parish of the Travelling People,  Traveller Mediation Service, Traveller Counselling Service and National Traveller MABS:   We as Traveller organisations are outraged by the death in police custody of George Floyd and by the ongoing responses of his country’s leadership. We express […]

Like many Irish people I am outraged by the death in police custody of George Floyd and by the responses of his country’s leadership. Yesterday’s minutes silence in Dáil Éireann was a good gesture of our national solidarity with his family, community, African Americans, and people everywhere experiencing racism. It also needs to reflect a […]

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre stands in solidarity with all who are outraged by the death of George Floyd. In particular, we want to express our condolences and solidarity with his family, to members of his community in Minneapolis, Minnesota and to all who assert, as we do, that Black Lives Matter. “This should […]