March 2016 - Pavee Point

Carrickmines Family Must Not Face Eviction

Pavee Point welcomes Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council’s statement last night that it is developing long-term permanent accommodation at the Glenamuck Road for the family bereaved by the Carrickmines fire tragedy in October 2015. It is also to be welcomed that the County Council are negotiating directly with the family involved and it is important […]

Call for new Action Plan Against Racism on International Day Against Racism

Fifteen years ago the Durban Declaration stated the prime responsibility for combating racism lay with Governments. Today to mark International Day Against Racism Martin Collins calls for a new National Action Plan Against Racism. For any plan against racism to work we need to know the situation for minority ethnic groups so that is why […]

Kilkenny Travellers to go to the High Court for their Horses

Good news from the Kilkenny Traveller Community Movement who have secured the right to appeal the seizure of 29 horses as part of Operation Storm on the 17th of February. Their case will now go to the High Court. ‘This is only the first step,” says Bernard Power of the Kilkenny Traveller Movement. Read their […]

Traveller Women Speak at Maynooth University to mark #IWD2016

Tessa Collins, Pavee Point’s Violence Against Women Programme and Kathleen Lawrence, Pavee Point’s Traveller Primary Health Care Project and Maria Joyce of the National Traveller Women’s Forum are speaking today at Maynooth University’s one-day conference to mark International Women’s Day 2016. Tessa and Kathleen are speaking about the role of Community Development in advancing the […]

Equal Steps for International Women’s Day

Pavee Point kicked off its Equal Steps challenge today – International Women’s Day. Each team within the organisation has a chance of winning a prize by taking steps to improve the gender balance within their own work in Pavee Point and with organisations outside Pavee Point. Chart the Road to Equal Steps […]

120 Winners at Traveller Runamuck Challenge

There was great sunshine – within and without – for the Traveller Men’s Action Plan Runamuck challenge today (5th of March). The men gathered to meet and get organised. There was a rousing speech from Martin Collins and then it was on the road. Everyone did the necessary and got down and dirty. It was […]

ALL Traveller Discrimination Cases should be heard at Workplace Commission

Pavee Point welcomes calls by legal rights organisation FLAC and the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) for ALL Traveller discrimination cases to be heard at the new Workplace Relations Commission The ECRI notes in a new publication the establishment of Ireland’s new Workplace Relations Commission but says that the exclusion from the […]