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This is National Breastfeeding Week and we want to encourage more Traveller women to breastfeed. Breastfeeding 1. helps build your baby’s immunity 2. is easier on your baby’s stomach 3. helps build the mother and baby bond Find out as much as you can about breastfeeding and get the supports you need. There is still […]

Five years ago today the UN adopted the Sustainable Development Goals promising to leave no one behind and to progress the most marginalised first. Pavee Point calls on the Government to today renew commitments with firm timelines and resourced actions – especially to ensure a just recovery from COVID-19.  Wednesday’s publication of Fundamental Rights Agency report […]

Pavee Point’s Drug and Alcohol Programme hosted its second online National Traveller Drug Network meeting last week. The meeting covered a range of topics which included an input from Ms. Nicki Killeen- HSE Social Inclusion who presented on the emerging trend of use of Nitrous Oxide. There was also a presentation of an overview of the National Drug Treatment […]

We are conducting on online commemoration of  Roma Genocide Remembrance Day, 2nd August. Gabi Muntean of our Roma Programme writes below: Today is the day we remember. We remember the 3,000 Roma, including children, who were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 2nd of August, 1944. We remember the Roma who were shot, […]

A collective submission to Review of Social Workers by Traveller organisations welcomes this review of the role of social workers in relation to the provision of accommodation by local authorities for Travellers. A recommendation is that social work, as in the provision of other services, should be delivered on the basis of identified need and […]

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre is delighted to accept the prestigious Max van der Stoel Award presented by the Organisation of Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Government of the Netherlands. “This award offers great encouragement for our work,” said Pavee Point Co Director, Martin Collins, “As it is for presented for […]

PAVEE 50808 is a free, 24/7, national, anonymous mental health support text line for young Travellers in Ireland. Irish Travellers experience mental health inequalities and there is a need for targeted and mainstream measures to address this – particularly with younger Travellers. Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre has worked in partnership with the HSE […]

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pavee Point has raised its concerns at the impact of COVID-19 measures on Traveller and Roma transfer to and progress within higher education. Pavee Point and the National Traveller Women’s Forum wrote to the then Minister for Education and Skills, Joe McHugh, TD and we co-hosted an education […]

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 […]