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Ten New Posts to Tackle Traveller & Roma Education Disadvantage

Pavee Point welcomes education funding announced this week that will see the introduction of initiatives to drive better outcomes for Traveller and Roma students. Under the 2022 Dormant Accounts Fund Action Plan, the Department of Education received €400,000 to tackle education disadvantage for Traveller and Roma communities and to support attendance, participation and retention among […]

Award for Breastfeeding Booklet

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 […]

Implementation of Traveller Policy – New Research – 26 October

Walking Towards Inclusion for the Traveller Community in Finglas

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 […]

‘Belongings’ exhibition – Opened on Culture Night

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 […]

All Ireland Women’s Forum Report

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 […]

ESRI On Inequalities in Mortality

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 […]

Condolences

All of us at Pavee Point would like to join with others in sending our sincere condolences to the Cash and Cawley families at this horrendous time. We can only imagine the suffering and shock the families are going through. The community is also in mourning for this family and we, along with others, will […]

Targets Needed at all Education levels to Increase Traveller and Roma Participation in Higher Education

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 […]

Statement on Taoiseach’s Comments on Needs of Travellers

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 […]

Report on Rights of the Child – Ireland

In the run up to the review of Ireland under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Pavee Point with other Traveller organisations, has produced a joint alternative report on the human rights situation of Traveller and Roma children in Ireland. The review is due to take place in Geneva at the start […]

Roma Genocide Memorial Day – 2 August

The horrors of the past must not be forgotten and reminds us of the importance of addressing the specific forms of anti-Roma and anti-Traveller racism across Europe. #RomaGenocide Memorial Day #2August #RomaHolocaust #RomaGenocideRemembranceDay

Funding welcome for Traveller Higher Education – Action Needed at Secondary Level

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 […]

Human Rights Committee calls for implementation of Traveller & Roma inclusion policies

Traveller and Roma organisations welcome the clear focus on Traveller and Roma policy implementation highlighted by the UN Human Rights Committee in its Concluding Observations of Ireland under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, published today. Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, along with National Traveller Women’s Forum, Galway Traveller Movement, Donegal Travellers […]

Dignity for Lety – as Pig Farm Demolished

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 […]

IACD Award for Ronnie Fay

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 […]

Traveller Pride Week

Well done to all the winners at the Traveller Pride Awards as part of Traveller Pride Week. It was a great event at the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin. It was wonderful to see so many in attendance to have so much positivity in the one room.

Meet with Health Minister

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.

New NTRIS must lead to ‘actual improvements’ for Travellers and Roma – Minister tells UN ICCPR.

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 […]

Targeted Actions For Traveller and Roma Women Welcome In New Domestic and Sexual Violence Strategy

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 […]