Twelve young Travellers got to see the Ireland soccer team training this week as part of the work of our Health Team. The lads got to meet their football heroes and to see what a professional training session is really like. This initiative is part of our ongoing work with the FAI and other sports […]
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Month: August 2017
Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre would like to offer our sympathy to the 18 people – victims of forced labour by 11 members of the Rooney family in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and London, as reported last week. As a human rights organisation, we condemn anyone who exploits and abuses people in the way described during this […]
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Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre welcomes the announcement this week that a pig farm on the site of a Roma concentration camp in the Czech Republic will finally be bought by the Czech government and a proper memorial put in place. Owners of the pig farm, AGPI, agreed a sale price with the Czech […]
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Our fantastic ethnicity quilt was admired by many at Áras an Uachtaráin this week. Thanks to all those who put such a lot of hard work into making it.
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Today President Michael D. Higgins was presented with our Traveller Ethnicity pin at a special ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin with a group from Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre. The Traveller Ethnicity Pin was created to celebrate the Irish State’s formal acknowledgement of Travellers as a distinct ethnic group in Irish society on 1st of […]
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Photos by Derek Speirs. Members of the Irish and international Roma community gathered today at the Mansion House, Dublin to commemorate Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. In a moving tribute to the estimated 500,000 Roma and Sinti who were murdered in the Holocaust, young Roma leaders read out testimonies of Holocaust survivors and their families. […]
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