Month: June 2023

The All-Ireland Traveller Health Study (2010) reported that 66.3% of Travellers considered illicit drugs to be a problem within the community. Since then drug use, once a taboo has now become a widespread problem described by a Traveller community drug worker at the Citizens Assembly as a “pandemic of substance misuse” affecting many Traveller families. […]

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma centre welcomes today’s publication of a Government poll on attitudes towards groups protected under equality legislation. “Sadly this survey highlights the ongoing higher levels of negative attitudes and the ongoing discrimination against Travellers and Roma,” said Martin Collins, Co Director Pavee Point, “This has also been reflected in previous studies […]

Traveller Pride Week got off to a great start on Monday 3rd July with a Traveller Arts Festival launch event. Traveller Pride Week celebrates Traveller culture and identity and includes 40 free events across 22 counties. See programme of events below. Events Around the Country

Thanks to everyone who came to our Traveller Voices event at IMMA  on 29 June.  It was great to have such a lovely crowd in such a historic setting.  It was wonderful to showcase the wealth of talent in the Traveller community and thanks to the IMMA team for their collaboration. Pavee Point staff really […]

Pavee Point’s annual Men’s Health Day 2023 was a fun event with plenty of health benefits. Fourteen football teams from around the country played each other in a football tournament and this included a team from the Health Service Executive and 5 Roma teams.  Golf also featured as did outdoor games such as tossing the […]

Pavee Point is delighted to be a recipient of a Heritage Council Community Heritage Grant to start work on our archive. Over our 38 year history we have built up a store of images, documents, objects and displays. The work we are starting now will enable us to develop our collection in a strategic way […]