Traveller Collection website and book was launched this week and was a strong reminder of the need for Traveller culture and identity to become more visible in our institutions. The project Traveller Collection took place in 2018 and Pavee Point Co Director Martin Collins mentioned this week some positive developments that had taken place since […]
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Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre is part of a network of 32 national community and voluntary organisations – The Community Platform – that launched ‘Principles for Delivering a Public Childcare Model’ this week and called for the delivery of a public childcare model in Ireland. The Six Principles for a Public Childcare Model are: […]
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Pavee Point is encouraged that over half of the UN Member States highlighted the importance of combatting racism at Ireland’s Universal Periodic Review yesterday. We are joined in this by the National Traveller Women’s Forum, Galway Traveller Movement, Donegal Traveller Project and Minceirs Whiden. Many of the103 countries specifically mentioned Traveller & Roma issues and […]
read more →How do Travellers feel about the Gardaí and the courts in Ireland? A team of Traveller/Mincéir/Pavee researchers, working with staff at the University of Limerick, are collecting information about our views on the gardaí and the courts. Pavee Point is also supporting this research. What they find will provide evidence to the Irish Human Rights […]
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Well done to all the awardees at the Exchange House Traveller Education Awards. And particularly well done to our own Tracey Reilly who graduated with 1st Class Honours in her BA in Youth and Community Work at Maynooth University this year. Travellers in education have obstacles to overcome in order to succeed in the education […]
read more →Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre is participating in Eradicate Poverty Day event hosted this Sunday by All Together in Dignity. COVID-19 has served to highlight the inequalities that exist and we have seen how Travellers and Roma have been more vulnerable during this pandemic. Not only do marginalised groups have poorer outcomes in health […]
read more →Traveller and Roma human rights organisations welcome today a settlement by An Garda Síochána, Ireland’s police service, in relation to a discrimination complaint made against them by a US Romani Scholar who travelled to Ireland in August 2017 for a Roma Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration. The event was co-sponsored by the then Irish Department of Justice and […]
read more →A report from Covid-19 Roma Response Partnership of HSE Social Inclusion and ngos says the COVID-19 Response for Vulnerable People (CRVP) service needs to be part of the ‘new normal’ to ensure a humanitarian response to vulnerable Roma families, in Dublin At the launch of a report highlighting the positive work of the CRVP, Maxine […]
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The theme for this year’s #WorldMentalHealthDay is Mental Health in an Unequal World. During the #COVID-19 pandemic we saw that health inequalities that already existed were made worse and this was the case too for Irish Travellers. Speaking to Oireachtas In July this year, Geraldine McDonnell, Mental Health Worker with Pavee Point gave an […]
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Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre highlighted, at the launch today of Pavee Mothers breastfeeding videos and information booklet, that only 2% of Traveller mothers breastfeed compared to over half (56%) of the general population. Today’s initiative, on the first day of National Breastfeeding Week, is to help revitalise breastfeeding in the Traveller community. And […]
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Pavee Point is delighted to be part of student festival #RiseUp with Stand. The annual STAND Student Festival returns to campuses across Ireland from the 27th of September to the 12th of November 2021. The theme of this year’s festival is resilience, and this year’s exhibition will celebrate young people’s courage and creativity in rising […]
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The National Traveller Drug Network met on Thurs 23rd September. Paula Leonard from Alcohol Ireland presented on 1) the harms associated with drinking 2) drink delivery culture and associated harms and 3) the current national campaign on drink deliveries. This was followed by a discussion where participants highlighted concerns regarding alcohol consumption and how this has changed since the […]
read more →Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre would like to express our condolences to the family of Mervyn Taylor RIP and to acknowledge the trojan work of Mervyn Taylor in helping to bring in a new culture of equality and equality based rights in Ireland. In the area of Traveller rights Mervyn Taylor as, Minister for […]
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Pavee Point is part of the Children’s Futures Campaign and is working in solidarity to achieve educational reform to bring about equal outcomes in education for Travellers and Roma. The Children’s Futures Campaign, established in February 2021 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and comprising 13 children and young people organisations, is today throwing a spotlight […]
read more →Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre would like to express our deep condolences to the family of Traveller activist Michael McDonagh of Navan, Co Meath, on the sad occasion of his passing. Michael McDonagh was a stalwart of the Traveller struggle. He made a huge contribution to challenging racism and discrimination and achieving human rights […]
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Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre is calling for the urgent implementation of the recommendations of the ‘Traveller Accommodation Expert Review’. “The Traveller accommodation situation represents a humanitarian crisis. This crisis is effecting Traveller’s health, education and access to employment,” said Pavee Point Co Director, Martin Collins. Mr. Collins is on the National Traveller Accommodation […]
read more →Pavee Point is collaborated with Culture Night Dublin and the Parish of the Travelling People to bring Traveller tinsmithing to the heart of Dublin City for #Culture Night. Tinsmiths James Collins and Tom McDonnell joined with our Traveller Primary Health Care workers to present tinsmithing and share stories about traditional Traveller life. Geraldine McDonnell of […]
read more →Traveller Mapping of Community Our cultural heritage project Pavee Roads Home is entering a new phase of development with Maynooth Geography and TravAct in Coolock. We are working together to document Travellers’ stories of belonging and unbelonging in North Dublin to promote an awareness and pride in Traveller identity and culture – and so promote Traveller […]
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Pavee Point welcomes the acknowledgement of the issues facing Travellers in the report by the ESRI and IHREC ‘Monitoring Adequate Housing in Ireland’. The report acknowledges the ‘significant disadvantage’ experienced by Travellers in accommodation including over-representation of Travellers among the homeless and overcrowding experienced by Irish Travellers. As the report states this disadvantage impacts on […]
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On Monday , 20 September, Traveller Pride Week officially launched by Minister Roderic O’Gorman, TD Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and there will be a panel discussion about the meaning of Traveller Pride Week. Traveller Pride Week 2021 runs from 20th September – 3rd October, a two week long celebration of Traveller […]
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