Category: News

To celebrate #LivingHeritage, Oein de Bharduin will host a workshop on CANT – the Traveller language on Thursday 17 August, 10.30am at Pavee Point. This will be a great chance for Travellers and members of the general public to find out more about a language that is still very much part of Traveller culture and […]

Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre is looking for a music organisation to run a series of classes and workshops over a period of 3 months for young Travellers in Galway. The aim of the project is to develop a group that will allow young Travellers to participate in the mainstream cultural scene in Ireland.  […]

Looking through our filing cabinets archivist Chloe Stapleton from Arcline re-discovered a collection of letters, photos and a journal put together by a worker for the Legion of Mary in the Dundalk/Monaghan region from the 1950s to 1980s.   The photos date from as early as 1949 and are accompanied by details of the religious […]

Pavee Point commends the commitment of Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris, TD to address the education disadvantages of Travellers and Roma as reiterated during a visit to our centre today. Minister Harris visited Pavee Point today to listen to the experiences of Travellers and Roma who left school […]

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre was delighted today to welcome Education Minister Norma Foley, TD to meet with our Traveller Education Progamme and hear the lived experience of Travellers in the education system.     With the development of the National Traveller & Roma Education Strategy underway, as promised in the current Programme for Government, […]

Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, Donegal Travellers Project, HSE National Social Inclusion Office, HSE National Immunisation Office and HSE Public Health have developed new resources on the MMR vaccine and measles including a video and poster. To print poster you can download this pdf. What is Measles? Measles is a very infectious illness that […]

The All-Ireland Traveller Health Study (2010) reported that 66.3% of Travellers considered illicit drugs to be a problem within the community. Since then drug use, once a taboo has now become a widespread problem described by a Traveller community drug worker at the Citizens Assembly as a “pandemic of substance misuse” affecting many Traveller families. […]

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma centre welcomes today’s publication of a Government poll on attitudes towards groups protected under equality legislation. “Sadly this survey highlights the ongoing higher levels of negative attitudes and the ongoing discrimination against Travellers and Roma,” said Martin Collins, Co Director Pavee Point, “This has also been reflected in previous studies […]

Traveller Pride Week got off to a great start on Monday 3rd July with a Traveller Arts Festival launch event. Traveller Pride Week celebrates Traveller culture and identity and includes 40 free events across 22 counties. See programme of events below. Events Around the Country

Thanks to everyone who came to our Traveller Voices event at IMMA  on 29 June.  It was great to have such a lovely crowd in such a historic setting.  It was wonderful to showcase the wealth of talent in the Traveller community and thanks to the IMMA team for their collaboration. Pavee Point staff really […]

Pavee Point’s annual Men’s Health Day 2023 was a fun event with plenty of health benefits. Fourteen football teams from around the country played each other in a football tournament and this included a team from the Health Service Executive and 5 Roma teams.  Golf also featured as did outdoor games such as tossing the […]

Pavee Point is delighted to be a recipient of a Heritage Council Community Heritage Grant to start work on our archive. Over our 38 year history we have built up a store of images, documents, objects and displays. The work we are starting now will enable us to develop our collection in a strategic way […]

We are looking forward to being part of this event and supporting Traveller artists and sharing different aspects of Traveller culture and identity. All info at this link – https://imma.ie/whats-on/imma-outdoors-pavee-point-traveller-voice/

Pavee Point welcomes newly released figures from Census 2022 that show the count of Irish Travellers increased by 6% to 32,949 since the last Census. “Today’s figures on ethnicity reflect the important work that Pavee Point has done, in conjunction with the CSO, in ethnic data collection in a human rights context over the past 20 […]

Pavee Point was delighted to collaborate with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) to in organising a citizen curation project.  The project ‘Pride of Place’ resulted in a digital exhibition of selected artworks from the IMMA collection.  Thanks to the Cork Traveller Women’s Network who also participated. See the exhibition here  

Pavee Point welcomes publication of a new Education Department report on Traveller school attendance 2016 – 2020.  Data, and in particular disaggregated data on the basis of ethnicity, is essential for ethnic equality monitoring which can help create conditions for Traveller equality in education access, participation and outcomes at all levels.  The reports are limited and given end […]

Pavee Point joined Irish Traveller Movement, the Irish Network Against Racism and the Centre for Creative Arts Practices at the Oireachtas to talk to TDs and Senators about what needs to happen to ensure the inclusion of Travellers, Roma and other minority ethnic groups in local and community arts. In his opening statement Martin Collins […]

Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre welcomed the opportunity to participate in the Citizens’ Assembly on Drug Use on the 13th and 14th of May 2023. John Paul Collins, Community Development Worker on the Drug and Alcohol Programme in Pavee Point, participated in the panel discussion on community impact, highlighting the disproportionate impact of substance misuse on […]

Pavee Point Education Programme is delighted to share our information videos on Further Education. Further Education Colleges around the country are NOW OPEN to register for courses in the autumn. Find all information on colleges and courses – https://www.paveepoint.ie/further-education-and-training…/ The Traveller Apprenticeship Scheme is also open for applications until 19th May – https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSeDnfZhJ6WAIt…/viewform

Pavee Point is at the European Commission today in Brussels to talk about the role of civil society reporting in pushing forward policy in relation to Travellers and Roma.  There are specific targets to be achieved under the EU Roma Strategic Framework 2020-2030. Ireland is currently behind in this work as Ireland has yet to […]