You only fail if you give up

Johnny McDonagh with his certificate

Traveller youth worker Johnny McDonagh last week graduated with a FETAC Level 5 qualification in Youth Work.

Johnny, who works with the Youth Work team at Pavee Point Travellers Centre, gained the award in eight modules earlier this year.  The graduation took place at the Headquarters of Ballymun Regional Youth Service.

Speaking […]

Site Maintenance this Friday

The Pavee Point Website will be down for maintenance on Friday 11 May 2012 from 9.30am to 4.30pm

During this time the whole Pavee Point website service will be offline.  Websites at http://pavee.ie  will not be affected.

Update: Maintenance finished early.

Have a think and win €100

Have a think to ditch the drink

We’re looking for a short, catchy campaign slogan for our event on June 19

The winner will receive a €100 One4All voucher.

The event aims to highlight that people can enjoy themselves without alcohol.

The winning slogan will be used in all promotional material for […]

Working with Roma in Ireland? Let us know.

Following requests by service providers working with Roma in Ireland, Pavee Point is working to create a database of the range of service providers who are working directly with Roma in Ireland.  Staff working with Roma are asked to fill in a short questionnaire that will provide brief details for such a database.  This will be a resource for statutory […]

Louis le Brocquy 1916-2012

Louis le Brocquy meets James Collins, Tinsmith. Le Brocquy often painted scenes featuring tinsmiths in his ‘Tinker Series’ from 19451948.

Pavee Point learned today with sadness of the death of the celebrated artist Louis le Brocquy.

Louis le Brocquy, one of Ireland’s best known artists,  is fondly remembered by Pavee Point for […]

The Push-Bicycle Diary

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

–Jim Rohn

Fourteen young Traveller men from Pavee’s Youth Work Programme in Finglas have set themselves the task of building their own bikes from scratch in conjunction with the talented volunteers at www.rothar.ie over an 8 week period.

They have been busy collecting scrap and rescuing old, […]

Special Initiative on Traveller Employment

The Special Initiative for Travellers aims to explore practical approaches to redressing the imbalance in traveller under-employment, support travellers already engaged in the traveller economy and provides a special training fund (small grants) to address the training needs of adult travellers.    Since 2005, FÁS was the provider of funding and the body responsible for programme administration, […]