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 […]

To mark EU Roma Week 2023, Pavee Point is launching a new report on Roma maternal health. “This report, ‘Romneango Sfato/Roma Women’s Voices’  is an important step in highlighting the health inequalities experienced by Roma women in Ireland,” said Jenny Liston, Co Ordinator of the Roma Programme at Pavee Point. “We know from the Roma […]

Pavee Point was delighted today to host a visit from the new Chief Executive Officer of the Health Service – Bernard Gloster. It was a great opportunity to update Mr. Gloster with our recent work in a range of areas. Mr. Gloster has a long track record in social inclusion and a strong interest in […]

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre welcomes today’s launch of ‘Roma Daja  – supporting Roma women during and after pregnancy’, published by the HSE Social Inclusion.  “Pavee Point is delighted to have worked with HSE Social Inclusion on this project building on our previous work, Pavee Mothers.  Pavee Mothers (www.paveemothers.ie)  served as a useful model […]

The first World Romani Congress was held in London on 8th of April, 1971. It was the beginning of a European movement to lobby against the inequalities faced by Roma and Travellers. The aim of the Congress was to create an advocacy platform to address the racism and neglect being experienced by Roma and Travellers. […]

On International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 2023, Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre welcomes the publication of a new and much needed National Action Plan Against Racism (NAPAR). NAPAR is a commitment to eliminating racism in all its forms in Ireland and Pavee Point welcomes the clear and early mention of Travellers […]

Thanks to Alphie Mulligan and Tommy Fegan for visiting Pavee Point with two sets of pipes belonging to #Traveller piper Felix Doran. Tommy Fegan spoke about the huge contribution Traveller musicians have made to traditional music and the extraordinary playing of Felix Doran and also his brother Johnny as well as other Traveller musicians. Alphie […]