By Kay McCabe, Involve Meath The European Commission Representation in Ireland has published a new collection of stories about the EU and equality and inclusion in Ireland. Inspired by the EU motto, ‘United in Diversity’, the Diversity Journal showcases the work that is happening in communities across Ireland which is…
Submitted by Research Team Our names are Dr. Sindy Joyce (post-doctoral researcher), Margaret O’ Brien (peer-researcher) and Olive O’ Reilly (peer researcher), we are Travellers/Mincéirs and are currently working with Professor Amanda Haynes and Dr. Jennifer Schweppe carrying out a research study at the University of Limerick. This project has…
Helping People to Help Themselves: How one Limerick Traveller Woman Responded to her Community’s Needs During the COVID Crisis! By Miriam Kerins; who finds out it’s all about risk reduction and creating awareness A support initiative, which has been set up to help Limerick Travellers by Limerick Travellers to address…
“Feuding is neither a sport nor a form of entertainment. People get hurt. Families are damaged. The fabric of the community gets torn.” Rosaleen McDonagh. Last April, the Traveller Counselling Service, Exchange House Ireland and the Traveller Mediation Services organised a conference on ‘Inter-family Violence and its Impact on Traveller…
Mind Your Head with the Good Nuck Mental Health Campaign By Bryanna Sweeney Involve Youth Meath kicked off 2019 with the launch of the Good Nuck Mental Health campaign at the Hotel Riu Plaza, The Gresham Hotel in Dublin last month. The reason for this initiative was, “To give young…
The Road Behind and the Road Ahead Following Ethnicity Recognition By Dr David Jo Murphy “May all the people of our nation live in the shelter and never in the shadow of each other” (Enda Kenny Dáil Eireann 1/3/2017). Now that the proud day has passed and the…
Eurovision: Telling Another Story By David Jo Murphy. Each year in Ireland we get our hopes up, thinking this will be our year again; we’ve won it more times than any other country, surely this year will be a triumphant return to form. Then, as has become routinely usual,…
This toolkit aims to identify, develop and share best practice approaches for engaging with, retaining and working with Young Travellers. This toolkit will provide practitioners, policy makers and managers with policy priorities identified by young Travellers to support youth service development towards improved practice; understanding barriers young Travellers face in…
Travellers’ Voice Magazine, in collaboration with Involve Ltd. have recently completed a project promoting the importance of Third level education in the Traveller community. Degrees Ahead: Another Level is a poster highlighting 8 members of the Travelling community with various educational qualifications ranging from a Bachelor of Law Degree to Degrees in Business…
The Criminal Justice (Aggravation by Prejudice) Bill 2016 aims to make offences committed with prejudice relating to the race, colour or ethnic origin, a disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity to be illegal. The Bill to be put to the floor while extremely important has omitted Travellers. Several opposition TDs…
Tuesday the 6th September saw the beginning of discussions and working groups around the topic of identity and culture in the Traveller Community. A number of key organisations and stakeholders are in Athlone for the next few days to scope the development of an accredited Traveller Culture and Identity programme.…
Mincéirs Whiden is a Traveller only organisation with over 800 members spread throughout Ireland both north and south of the border. Mincéirs Whiden, Cant for Travellers Talking was set up as safe space where Travellers can come together to talk about issues affecting our community and create ways as a…