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Pavee Point welcomes today’s publication of the Final Report of the Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care. The report acknowledges that poverty, poor housing and socio economic factors as well as prejudice and discrimination contribute to a mental health crisis in the Traveller community that sees suicide account for 11% of all […]

A partnership of Traveller organisations and mainstream LGBTQI support services joined together today to launch resources for LGBTQI Travellers and Roma.  Posters and videos were launched that can be used to celebrate Traveller and Roma LGBTQI identity. “If we as Traveller organisations are serious about working to achieve equality and the protection of the human […]

Suicide and mental health is at a crisis point for Travellers.  As our mental health worker and Traveller man Pa Reilly says young Travellers are growing up seeing and hearing about suicide and mental health issues on a daily basis. Traveller suicide is nearly 6 times higher than the settled population and accounts for 11% […]

A Traveller Voice at National Level Traveller mental health is in crisis.  We read more and more reports of Traveller families devastated by suicide.  Figures from 2010 show that  suicide among Travellers is 6 times greater than in the settled population.  We know that mental health is impacted by living conditions, low educational outcomes and […]

Week one of a new 6-week programme – Pavee Gloke Health – has taken place. The aims of the programme are: Improve the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of Traveller men Explore issues that impact on Traveller men and the wider Traveller community Workshops took place and this work is combined with outdoor activities. […]

Traveller mothers-to-be face the harshest pregnancy and birth statistics in Ireland:  Higher rates of pregnancy loss  Higher rates of premature births  Lower birth weights  Infant mortality rate that is 3.5 times the national rate “These figures indicate that the majority of Traveller babies are effectively disadvantaged right from conception,” said Lynsey […]

Pavee Point is delighted this week to welcome a delegation from Scotland who have come on an information exchange in relation to working with Travellers. The delegation is made up of Scottish Government personnel as well as members of civil society and human rights organisations.  Scottish Ministers have recently joined to tackle inequalites in Scotland […]

Singer Thomas McCarthy spoke of  how music was all around when he was growing up at the opening of ‘My Comfort And My Joy’ at the Douglas Hyde Gallery on 18th September.  He explained that traditionally Travellers were the entertainment as they brought music and song from place to place. Thomas carries on this proud […]

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 […]

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 […]

Our Primary Health Care Team really enjoyed their visit to Traveller’s Journey the Traveller exhibit at the Museum of Country Life, Castlebar.  There were some really interesting exhibits and some beautiful objects.  The items on view brought back memories for some and were new discoveries for the younger Travellers there. And it’s absolutely great to […]

The Primary Health Care for Travellers Project (PHCTP)  have been working with HSE Assistant National Clinical Lead for Audiology, Bronagh O’Donnell on improving referral pathways for Travellers and culturally appropriate audiology resources. Today Bronagh, hosted a site visit for the PHCTP to the community audiology service in Grangegorman, where the project were shown the walk in […]

Seven Traveller men who work in the area of health in different Traveller organisations across the eastern region  took part in a ‘Train the Trainers’ programme in sexual health. The training was called ‘Lets Talk…..About Safer Sex” and was run by HIV Ireland and funded by St. Stephen’s Green Trust.  This training was aimed at […]

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) spoke to Travellers and Roma and visited Traveller sites in preparation for its fifth country report on Ireland. During its visit we highlighted to ECRI: The need for a budget and accountability to ensure the implementation of the National Traveller Roma Inclusion Strategy (NTRIS)  2017-2021 The lack […]

The Traveller collection from the Ulster University is being digitised this week and next at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane on Parnell Square. The collection consists of 130 boxes of little seen material.  So far 3,000 images have been scanned in the gallery – which include original photos. This is part of Traveller Collection […]

A new Traveller Oireachtas Group (TOG) aims to develop ‘solid, concrete actions’ on Traveller education, employment and mental health, said the group Co-Convenor Independent Senator Colette Kelleher at the launch today. “Since formal recognition of Travellers‘ ethnic minority status, Oireachtas members of all parties and none, have the opportunity now to create consensus and action […]

 It was our 13th year to be in the Dublin Pride parade.  With over 60,000 people watching and the biggest parade yet – it was great to be involved.  We got great cheers from the crowd while flying the flag for Traveller LGBTQI rights and for diversity. Thanks to all who were involved and to […]

A delegation of the Council of Europe Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities visited Pavee Point this week as part of its country visit to Ireland. We were delighted to welcome the delegates and there was a roundtable discussion on the issues facing Travellers and Roma in Ireland today.  […]

Traveller Collection at The Hugh Lane gives a place to Traveller culture and identity in Dublin City’s Gallery and puts forward the idea of a national digital archive of Traveller culture. The project engages an ongoing collaborative process with cultural practitioners, Traveller activists and collectors in an exploration of what a Traveller collection or a […]