Category: News

Members of the public and supporters from the settled, Roma and Traveller community joined Pavee Point Travellers’ Centre on Friday 10 February in a candle-lit vigil remembering Marioara Rostas, the Roma teenager found murdered in Dublin in January. The simple vigil was organised in response to expressions of shock and goodwill from people contacting Pavee […]

The President’s visit, one of the last engagements of her two-term presidency, was an opportunity to reflect on the work of Mrs McAleese and the impact it has had on the Traveller community, Ireland’s largest indigenous ethnic minority. During the morning, the President visited a tree she planted in 2000, in memory of her friend […]

The Department of Health today (Wednesday 7th September, 2011) published the Birth Cohort Follow Up Report of the All Ireland Traveller Health Study on the Department’s website. The report presents the one year follow-up of Traveller infants born on the island of Ireland between October 2008 and October 2009. The Department of Health and Children […]

Assumptions overturned as reporter finds many Roma families in poverty and squalor in Dublin A Documentary broadcast on 3 this month found that the assumptions and stereotypes of Roma in Ireland were simply untrue.  The show, which aimed to expose organised aggressive begging in Dublin found no evidence of current organisation of the activity and […]

Discriminatory community welfare provision phase out completed: Travellers to avail of local services rather than centralised services from 1 September 2011 Centralised services for Traveller community welfare provision were found to be discriminatory in 2007 – unlike other recipients of community welfare services who could access services at their local facilities, Travellers in the Dublin […]

The annual Horse Fair at Borris, Co. Carlow, has been hailed as ‘a great success’ with the whole town packed and the cleanup operation completed in record time. A report in today’s Irish Times reflects a positive, well received event, with all shops and pubs open in the town to take advantage of the enormous […]

Remarks delivered 8th April 2011 – Charleville Library, Dublin 1 “Let me remind you why we are celebrating International Roma Traveller Day. On this day 1970 the first Roma Traveller World Congress took place in London. This was the first attempt at trying to unite and give one voice to the many dispirit groups working […]

A 27 year old man has appeared in court in Killarney as the first person in Ireland to be charged under Section 2 of the Incitement to Hatred Act over materials he published on the social networking website Facebook. Mr Patrick Kissane produced a page entitled ‘Promote the use of Knacker Babies for shark bait’, […]

The habitual residency condition must be met in order for people to qualify for social assistance payments in Ireland.  This means that the person must be resident in Ireland with“a degree of permanence evidenced by a regular physical presence enduring for some time, beginning at a date usually in the past and intended to continue […]