Category: News

Geraldine McDonnell and Mary Collins took part in an event organised by Maynooth University Motherhood Project this week to celebrate #nationalbreastfeedingweek. They were delighted to accept a Friends of Breastfeeding Award for an information booklet on breastfeeding for Traveller mothers developed by Pavee Point’s #PaveeMothers project https://paveemothers.ie/feeding/ Photo : (LtoR)Dr Ciara Bradley from the Dept […]

This week Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre presented at Walk 21, an international Conference hosted by TU Dublin in celebration of walking and active transport. Traveller Primary Health Care Worker, Winnie McDonagh, and Primary Health Care Project Coordinator, Doireann Crosson, presented findings of our walkability audit of the Finglas area. The aim of this […]

Pavee Point was delighted to open its doors again for Culture Night 2022 and welcome people to our exhibition ‘Belongings’. Open Tues, Wed (27 & 28 September) 10am to 1pm. For this event, Travellers and Roma exhibited personal items that are important and meaningful. We heard the stories about the objects and why they are […]

Pavee Point was delighted recently to meet An Taoiseach, Mícheál Martin TD at the All Island Women’s Forum report and highlight some of the issues facing Traveller women.  The report was published by the National Women’s Council and the forum addressed issues over the past year including violence against women, poverty, climate action, and the […]

A new report from the ESRI highlights the inequalities in mortality in Ireland and Irish Travellers are among those experiencing these inequalities. The report shows that Irish Travellers accounted for 0.2 per cent of the 2016 population aged 65+ but comprised 0.3 per cent of the deaths from COVID-19. The ESRI acknowledge this is probably an undercount […]

Pavee Point welcomes the new National Access Plan for Equity of Access, Participation and Success in Higher Education, 2022 – 2028, launched today, and believes it’s a critical response to supporting progression and retention rates of Travellers, Roma and other priority groups in higher education. Since its establishment Pavee Point has been advocating for Traveller […]

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre welcomes recent comments from An Taoiseach Mícheál Martin, TD acknowledging that the stock approaches to Traveller issues are not working. The Taoiseach told the Dáil that the Government needed to comprehensively review its approach. “We agree that a renewed impetus and vision is needed to bring about real improvements […]

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre welcomes today’s announcement  of enhanced financial supports for students seeking to access higher education. We welcome the specific supports for Travellers and Roma announced today by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris. We also welcome the commitment to set specific targets for […]

Pavee Point welcomes the news today that an industrial pig farm at the site of a one time Nazi ‘Gypsy Camp’ will begin demolition and a memorial will be built. This has been long campaigned for by Roma activists and Pavee Point has supported these campaigns. Lety in the Czech Republic is the site of […]

Ronnie Fay, RIP, today received a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Community Development. Ronnie’s husband Philip Watt accepted the award and said that Ronnie was always interested in linking the local with the international and loved the IACD events.  Ronnie very sadly died in January this year. As well as being Co […]

Pavee Point was delighted to meet Health Minister Stephen Donnelly, TD to discuss implementing the National Traveller Health Action Plan, due to be published in September. Pavee Point also welcomes commitments to engage with the Department of Health and HSE on further developments to address Traveller health inequalities.

Pavee Point welcomes Equality Minister Roderic O Gorman’s commitment to ensuring implementation and measurable outcomes in the new National Traveller & Roma Inclusion Strategy.  The Minister was speaking  as part of Ireland’s review under the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that took place in Geneva this week. Mr O’Gorman told the Committee […]

Pavee Point welcomes the Third National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence published by the Government on 28 June 2022. We welcome the recognition of and commitment to intersectionality and community development approaches as key elements of the Third Strategy, and in particular the acknowledgement that Traveller and Roma communities experience additional challenges in […]