Over 200 Traveller men made their way to the Phoenix Park on 14th of June for health checks on Traveller Men’s Health Day, supported by the Eastern Regional Traveller Health Network and part of Men’s Health Week.
Organisations such as the Irish Cancer Society, Pieta House, Headstrong, Jigsaw and the Marie Keating Foundation provided health information and diabetes and cholesterol checks were made available by nurses from North County Dublin before a few rousing games of soccer. Boots also provided information on sun protection before the rain came.
Travellers and Roma came from as far away as Donegal to attend and included people from Fingal, Coolock, Condalkin Travellers Development Group, Tallaght Travellers Development Group, TravAct, Blanchardstown Traveller Development Group, Southside Traveller Action Group and for the first time there was a Roma football team involved. The Pavee Point team carried away the winner’s cup for the third year in a row and so remain the team to beat.
Thanks goes to our event supporters – Sport Against Racism Ireland for supplying goal posts and flagpoles; Dublin City Council for supplying our much used tents and gazebos; the FAI for their development officers and referees and the Leinster Football League for the great pitches and facilities.
