Pavee Point

“These Traveller Pride Awards show there are many ways to be a Traveller.”

Stellar MC, and National Co-Ordinator of Traveller Pride Week, Martin Beanz Warde yesterday led a packed room in Dublin through the Traveller Pride Awards 2026.

The Galwegian comedian and dramatist presided over a stacked schedule, with some nine awards handed out to Travellers great and good from both sides of the Irish Sea.

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Pic1: Martin Beanz Warde & John Doherty
Pic2: Jules McDonagh & Cathleen McDonagh Clark
Pic3: Maureen Ward & Dol O’Reilly
Pic4: Martin McDonagh & Philomena Poole
Pic5: Kyle Harvey & Helena Power
Pic6: Keith McDonagh, Jane Ward & Kara McGann
Pic7: Michael Reilly & Brian Kerr

All photos by Richard Walshe.

Traveller Pride Week

Pavee Point's Education Team and Pavee Mothers attended the launch of Children’s Rights in the Balance, the 2025 Annual Report of the Ombudsman for Children's Office (OCO).

The report highlights key issues impacting children and young people across Ireland and emphasises the importance of ensuring children’s rights remain central in policy and practice.

The launch provided an important opportunity to reflect on the experiences of children and young people who continue to face inequality and barriers to accessing their rights, including Traveller and Roma children and young people.

Pavee Point welcomed the report’s focus on accountability, participation and the need for coordinated action to improve outcomes for all children.

Pavee Point recognises the critical role of the Ombudsman for Children’s Office in advocating for children’s rights and highlighting the lived realities of children and young people experiencing poverty, discrimination and exclusion.

Read the report here: https://www.oco.ie/library/2025-annual-report-childrens-rights-in-the-balance/



Pictured: Valerie O'Leary (Pavee Mothers); Niall Muldoon (The Ombudsman for Children)

Very excited for the Traveller Pride Awards!

Just about to get under way at the Rotunda Hospital...