Racism Archives - Pavee Point

PRESS STATEMENT: MOB VIOLENCE HAS NO PLACE IN IRELAND

Pavee Point Press Statement 26 Oct 2014 Mob Violence Has No Place in Ireland Pavee Point strongly condemns any actions to intimidate and promote violence against Roma in Waterford. This follows the publication of multiple Facebook pages which openly incite hatred against Roma, and reports of a public order incident on Saturday evening where […]

Press Release: Sinn Fein Resignation

Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre Press Statement May 22nd , 2014 Sinn Fein Resignation for anti Traveller comment is ‘Action instead of an empty promise’ Pavee Point today welcomes the resignation of Clare County Council election candidate Cathal O Reilly from the Sinn Fein party following his admission that he had made anti-Traveller […]

Killarney Court upholds Traveller discrimination case

Killarney District Court last week awarded two Traveller women €1000 each on foot of being refused entry into McSorley’s nightclub, which was hosting a mental health charity event. The women arrived to the nightclub and were told by the doorman that there was no event on, but other people could be seen entering with tickets. […]

Press Ombudsman Upholds Prejudice Complaint

Pavee Point is delighted today to highlight the decision by the Press Ombudsman to uphold a complaint made by Shane O Curry of ENAR that a column by Mr Ian O Doherty of the Irish Independent breached Principle 8 (Prejudice) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Magazines. We feel strongly that this was […]

Roma in Europe: Guilty until proven innocent?

Stigmatization of Roma communities as criminal is disturbing and dangerous, warns UN Independent Expert on minority issues Rita Izsák GENEVA (29 October 2013) – “The recent activities of some national authorities to remove ‘non-Roma looking’ children from Roma families due to their alleged abduction has led to sensationalist media coverage, has been disturbing and may […]

Robert Heffernan’s Tweets: Joint Statement from SARI, SRRC and PP

Click here to see the statement on the SARI website. Following the ‘racist’ tweet last week from Irish athlete Robert Heffernan, a joint statement has been released by SARI, Show Racism the Red Card (SRRC) and Pavee Point recommending that all National Governing Bodies of Sport adopt Equality and Discrimination clauses in their constitutions in […]