Pavee Point welcomed today the opportunity to meet Garda Commissioner Drew Harris and Assistant Garda Commissioner Paula Hilman, to discuss our work in terms of the meaningful involvement of Travellers and Roma in the future of policing. From our engagement with Traveller and Roma organisations and communities across the country, we recognise and acknowledge the […]

Secondary schools are opening at the end of this month for school applications for 2024. And most schools will close for applications before Christmas. So this leaves a window of a few weeks to get your applications in. Watch our video here. Check application deadlines with the school of your choice. You can do this […]

Pavee Point welcomes the publication by Minister for Education Norma Foley TD and Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion Josepha Madigan TD of the reports on reduced school days, which Pavee Point has been calling for some time. “As a Traveller mother and education worker it is very unsettling to see that Traveller […]

Approximately 50 Traveller men took part in a 50k cycle on the Waterford Greenway to raise awareness on suicide prevention for World Suicide Prevention Day 10th September. Men from Coolock , Finglas, Meakestown, Barnlodge, Avila Park, Cara Park, St Dominics, Tallaght and Navan joined the group that travelled to Waterford. Pavee Point Men’s Health Worker Michael Collins said […]

A successor strategy to the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy (NTRIS) currently being developed by the government. Local consultation processes with Traveller and Roma organisations will take place in September and October and Pavee Point is hosting the first consultation on 18th September.  Traveller Consultations 18th September | Dublin & Northern Region: Dublin City […]

Thanks to everyone who participated in, and attended, our Culture Night event. It was very enjoyable and a good atmosphere and that was down to all the people who were there. We especially want to thank the musicians PJ Mongan and Francis Ward who travelled with Music Generation Galway City to be with us. And […]

Are you committed to and experienced in working for human rights, particularly in health access, participation and outcomes for marginalised or minority groups? Pavee Point invites you to apply to lead the work of our large and dynamic Primary Health Care for Travellers Project (PHCTP)! Our PHCTP seeks to address Traveller health inequalities as identified in […]

Recovery Month aims to promote awareness and understanding around substance misuse including alcohol and drugs. Additionally, it seeks to champion and celebrate individuals from all walks of life who have managed to carry out a successful recovery. On the 27th September Pavee Point will host an evening of discussion and celebration. Three speakers will get […]

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre played Coolmine Therapeutic Community last night (17/8) in an 11-a-side football match to raise awareness on suicide and addiction. The game started with a minute’s silence for people that have died of addiction and suicide.  What a game! The game was 5-5 after 90 minutes and went into penalties, […]

Oein de Bharduin and Geraldine McDonnell hosted a very enjoyable workshop on CANT today at Pavee Point as part of #Heritageweek2023. There was a great exchange of words, stories and ideas and we all learned something. We hope to have more gatherings like this. #LivingHeritage We were also delighted to host visitors to centre during […]

We are getting ready for #HeritageWeek 12 – 20 August!! We found a lovely set of exhibition photos of a Traveller wedding from 1968 which we will have on view.  We also found some great copperware, beady pockets and lots of old newspaper articles that show the different ways Travellers were treated in the media. […]

To mark Roma Genocide Memorial Day on the 2nd of August, Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, in collaboration with An Post, is organising a special viewing of the tapestry ‘el holocausto’ at the historic GPO building on O’Connell Street, with a short ceremony featuring testimonies from Roma survivors. Testimony of the Paszkowska Family by Vanessa Paszkowska Both of […]

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 […]