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There were many struggles and happy memories recalled at the Donegal Travellers’ Project 20th Anniversary event this week.  And lots of plans for the future.  Speakers recalled the great work of the project and its impact on people’s lives at an event in the Regional Cultural Centre.  And old and new friends gathered for a […]

Traveller women  took part today (June 29th) in a bread making workshop as part of a NWCI event.  Kneading and folding dough was used in the half-day workshop with Pavee Point’s  Traveller Community Health Workers as a metaphor for women’s work and to discuss a feminist perspective on the folding and unfolding of time.   The women […]

Photo: Here 4 year old John Collins and 4 year old Cassie Marie McDonagh with L to R, Professor Jimmy Hill Vice President National College of Ireland, Geraldine McDonnell Home Visitor Pavee Point, Charlene Collins and Ann McDonnell Home Visitor Pavee Point. Photo by Derek Speirs Seven Traveller children graduated from the Parent Child Home Programme […]

Homelessness Committee proposals show Traveller accommodation is part of the homelessness crisis and displays a much needed positive approach to improving living conditions for Irish Travellers,  according to Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre.  We are delighted the Committee echoes our calls for a moratorium on evictions, Traveller accommodation implementation mechanisms to include Travellers and […]

‘Until we have brought about an end to inequality, oppression and poverty and the establishment of a republic which is representative of the whole people of Ireland including the Traveller community…. the struggle for freedom  from oppression continues,’…so reads the Traveller Re-Proclamation of the Republic as read by actor John Connors, whose grandfather participated in […]

The sun may not have been shining but there was a sunny atmosphere at the Garden Party in Áras an Uachtaráin yesterday (June 7) to celebrate multi-culturalism and diversity.

Pavee Point’s Roma Programme attended last week’s Council of Europe Dialogue with Roma and Traveller Organisations in Strasbourg where there was a focus on combatting hate speech.   Mr. Rui Gomes of the Council of Europe Youth Department spoke about their ‘No Hate Speech Movement’ and Stefano Valenti of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance […]

To mark Men’s Health Week (Monday 13th – Sunday 19th June 2016), Ten Traveller Primary Health Care Projects in the Eastern Region Traveller Health Unit will host a Traveller men’s Health Day on the 14th of June in the Phoenix Park. Participants will be able to get their Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Checked. Health information will be […]

There was a full house at this year’s Traveller Pride Awards at the Pillar Room, the Rotunda today (1st June)  as people travelled from all over the country to attend.  Two of the awards went to Cork, one to Kerry, two to Galway, one each to Clare and Meath and the MC for the event was […]

Photo: Clodagh McDonnell, Principal Officer, Dept. of Environment, Community and Local Government addresses the conference. Pavee Point was delighted to participate in this week’s Pobal/SICAP seminar on engagement with target groups.  This was a very welcome space to focus on how to eliminate discrimination, promote equality and protect human rights through the Government’s Social Inclusion […]

The first ever national Roma Committee is being set up and the Department of Justice and Equality are inviting Roma to apply to be part of this group.  This is an exciting opportunity for Roma leaders to represent the Roma community at a national level. The Roma Committee will identify and discuss issues of concern […]

(Photo. Back L to R – Dean Collins, John McDonnell, Michael Tyrell, Mikey Collins, Hughie Collins, Martin Collins. Front L to R – Mikey Quinn, Martin Collins, Joe Collins, Martin Collins, Daniel Kavanagh) It was great to see Travellers represented at two main events celebrating the 1916 Rising Centenary. A group of young Dublin Travellers […]