Month: October 2018

This week we are sending out postcards to politicians and decision makers to seek support to implement the forthcoming Traveller Health Action Plan. We want politicians and policy makers to put pressure on Ministers to take make this Plan work.  We know what needs to be done.  We know how it can be done.  What […]

Photos: Annie and Tommy McDonagh, members of the Travelling community from Galway’s east side, cast their votes. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy, The Irish Times Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre congratulates Michael D. Higgins on his resounding re-election as President of Ireland. Irish Travellers know that President Higgins will continue to represent everyone in Ireland, including […]

Pavee Point’s Primary Health Care Project was delighted to take part in this year’s commemoration of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. This year marked the 10th anniversary of the unveiling of the Human Rights and Poverty Stone in Dublin’s city centre. A number of Traveller women spoke at the event where they […]

Pavee Point welcomes today’s publication of the Final Report of the Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care. The report acknowledges that poverty, poor housing and socio economic factors as well as prejudice and discrimination contribute to a mental health crisis in the Traveller community that sees suicide account for 11% of all […]

A partnership of Traveller organisations and mainstream LGBTQI support services joined together today to launch resources for LGBTQI Travellers and Roma.  Posters and videos were launched that can be used to celebrate Traveller and Roma LGBTQI identity. “If we as Traveller organisations are serious about working to achieve equality and the protection of the human […]

Suicide and mental health is at a crisis point for Travellers.  As our mental health worker and Traveller man Pa Reilly says young Travellers are growing up seeing and hearing about suicide and mental health issues on a daily basis. Traveller suicide is nearly 6 times higher than the settled population and accounts for 11% […]

A Traveller Voice at National Level Traveller mental health is in crisis.  We read more and more reports of Traveller families devastated by suicide.  Figures from 2010 show that  suicide among Travellers is 6 times greater than in the settled population.  We know that mental health is impacted by living conditions, low educational outcomes and […]