We were very happy to welcome Minister for Health Simon Harris TD to Pavee Point to highlight health inequalities between Irish Travellers and the majority population. Minister Harris met with Programme Workers here in Pavee Point to hear about our work and to get up to date information on Traveller health: · A 15 year […]
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Month: April 2017
EU Roma Week saw the first session of ‘Community Work in a Changing Ireland’ – a course for Traveller and Roma leaders – take place at NUI, Maynooth. This course is taking place over four sessions between now and October and aims: To promote effective intercultural community development to improve the communication and co-operation between Travellers […]
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Today’s Census 2016 results show an increase in the numbers of Irish Travellers – a sign, partly at least, of the success in getting across the message of the importance of ethnic data collection. Census 2016 results show a population increase of 5.1% to almost 31,000 Irish Travellers in the Republic. ‘It is very important to […]
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Maynooth University calls for action on the low levels of Traveller participation in higher educaiton in its report ‘Traveller in Higher Education’, launched today. The report places particular emphasis on mature students, becaues of the particular challenges of re-entering formal education in early adult life for many Travellers. Anastasia Crickley, former Head of Maynooth University […]
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This year for International Roma Day we are asking Roma community members what makes them proud to be Roma? My name is Gina. I was born in Romania. I’ve been in Ireland for sixteen years. I am training to be a nurse so I can help people. Why are you proud to be Roma? I am […]
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