Dear Friends, We are calling on Traveller and supportive organisations across Ireland to take part in #Traveller Road to Hope & Change 2025 – a National Traveller #Suicide and #MentalHealthAwareness Campaign, running from 10th September to 8th October 2025 1/

School secretaries and caretakers have started major strike action in a dispute over pensions and other entitlements. The industrial action went ahead after talks failed to resolve the row. Schools remain open, but services are expected to be severely affected. #VMNews

Best wishes to @ShineOnlineIE @nicolabyrne.bsky.social on the launch of the annual #GreenRibbonIRL campaign. I’m delighted to be able to join the official launch. This year’s theme is “Step Up to Stamp Out Stigma. 1/

⭐️Transformative open tender alert‼️ The Travellers Transforming Conflict Initiative (TTCI) is a collaboration between Exchange House Ireland National Travellers Service, Traveller Counselling Service and Traveller Mediation services. 1/

Be an ally to LGBTI+ Traveller and Roma and march with the National Action Group for LGBTI+ Traveller and Roma Rights on Saturday June 28th 2025! #Pride2025

We are delighted to be chosen as one of the lucky recipients of the #rtetoyshowappeal! This incredible opportunity allows us to progress the work of our co-created National #TravellerYouth #MentalHealth service from design stage to implementation! 1/

“Then a knock came to the door, a priest and two nuns and two gardaí came and took me from my mum’s arms. I was told she ran after the ambulance”. What a phenomenal woman: "It’s what you can take in life, and deal with the pain and suffering no matter what it is, and still be a good decent person."

Bradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity

#JobFairy alert ‼️ Exchange House Ireland are looking to hire a part-time project worker on a 12-month contract. Closing date to apply: Friday May 30th@5pm. For more information + how to apply go here: www.exchangehouse.ie/posv_ttcinc_... #ConnectWithUs #LearnWithUs #TalkWithUs #GrowWithUs

This upcoming one-day Irish Association of Social Workers conference will be the last one I’m involved in hosting as outgoing chair of the Social Workers in Adult #MentalHealth Special Interest Group! 1/

At the launch of Exchange House Ireland National Travellers Service #YouthMentalHealth report yesterday it was fantastic to hear about the process of creating and designing a national #Traveller Youth Mental Health Service 1/

We are really looking forward to the launch of our Youth Mental Health report happening next week in Exchange House Ireland. Come and join us next Wednesday 16th April @10:30 at EHI HQ to find out more. Register www.eventbrite.ie/e/traveller-... #ConnectWithUs #TalkWithUs #GrowWithUs #LearnWithUs

I am so, so delighted to see the hard work and dedication of the Exchange House Ireland National #Travellers Service team being spot-lighted in this edition of the @weactireland.bsky.social Good News Gazette! 1/

#JobFairy Come work with us! We are looking for a #HumanResources Officer AND a #YouthWorker to join the Exchange House Ireland team!! Please do check out the job listings below and get in touch with any questions you have. Please also share widely! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/

“School makes me feel slow” This @thejournal.ie @mariadelaney.ie article delves into the usage of reduced timetables and their disproportionate impact on #Traveller and Roma children and children with specific educational needs. www.thejournal.ie/investigates... 1/

Shockingly, back in 2021 we revealed that some Traveller children were permitted to attend school for just 40 minutes a day So has this improved? Here, I delve into the ongoing issue of reduced school days and report on their continued use:

#TravellerEthnicityDay #TravellerCulture #TravellerHeritage Feb 26th - March 5th in @dculibrary.bsky.social. Contact [email protected] for more information.

Welcome Beoirs! We are delighted to invite mothers, daughters, aunties, sisters and all wonderful women to our International Women’s Day celebration. Taking place Tuesday March 4th at Exchange House Ireland. Details below ⬇️ #IWD2025 #WomenLeadership #Support #Empower

On Grafton Street, for today only, lies what looks on the outside to be an ordinary flower shop. Men and women stoppedat the storefront looking to buy a dozen roses for their Valentine. But on the inside, it isn’t a florist’s at all jrnl.ie/6622859

If you have some time, please do read the article below, from the Irish Foster Care Association Journal, 2021 issue, titled “Through the eyes of a child – my first hand experience of the foster-care system through the lens of ‘dual culturalism” 1/

An #openaccess article from Associate Professor Lisa Hodge and colleauges. Well worth the read in terms of clarity of writing, structure, methodology, accessibility and application of critical social theory to the real-life situations of students in #socialwork programmes 1/

The other people she describes seem more like victims than criminals. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

***EXTENDED CLOSING DATE!!!*** With all the #StormEowyn commotion I forgot to share that there’s still time to apply for these two posts in Exchange House Ireland! #JobFairy Please get in touch with any questions. And get your application(s) in by Jan 31st!!!! www.exchangehouse.ie/positionsvac...

I still have spots available on both February 1st, and February 2nd, if you or someone you know might be interested:

I was incredibly delighted to be present to bear witness to todays’ event in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, which officially launched the Limerick Traveller Network’s “Traveller Education Change” project report. 1/

#JobFairy Check out these exciting vacancies in Exchange House Ireland National Travellers Service! Get in touch with any questions or queries ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Stuck for something to do this International Women's Day? If so, why not pop down to @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social for the launch of my book?

Waiting….. #jesuslizard

‼️‼️JobFairy alert‼️‼️ Exchange House Ireland National Travellers Service is hiring! There are TWO diverse roles available 1/

There’s still time to secure your place at the upcoming Irish Association of Social Workers Anti-Racism Advisory Group conference! I’m really excited to be speaking at the Jan 24th conference alongside two impressive #SocialWork leaders, Diane Ihirwe and Karima Abbes 1/

Campbell, J., Kelleher, J., Norris, M., & Palmer, A. (2024). Social work with Irish Travellers: Findings from a national evaluation. Journal of Social Work, 24(6), 727-745. doi.org/10.1177/1468... #OpenAccess #AntiRacist #SocialWork #CriticalConversations #CriticalReflection

Thank you so much to Zoe Hughes, Liam Sullivan and Care Alliance Ireland for the invitation to be part of this recent webinar "National Carers Strategy 2.0? What's Next for Family Carer Policy in Ireland?". A link to the webinar can be found here: www.carealliance.ie/Conference2024 1/

➡️Develop and implement a National Strategy for #Traveller #MentalHealth ➡️An Ombudsman for Travellers ➡️A state apology. On #WorldHumanRightsDay yesterday, I bore witness to Traveller friends, colleagues and organizations call, yet again, for their basic #HumanRights to be acknowledged. 1/

People queuing for food from 4am on a Dublin street, and the distress when it runs out.

Our annual collection for children in emergency accommodation, organised by @buzzoneill.bsky.social, is happening again on Dec 21st. See graphic for details, and if you can’t make it to Pantibar, you can make a € donation at the link: www.gofundme.com/f/g9h2p-plea...

Patrick’s life mattered, Patrick’s life matters, all #Traveller children’s lives matter. At the SHINE Headline #mentalhealth media awards yesterday, the documentary ‘Patrick: A Young Traveller Lost’, won multiple awards across categories; 1/

I voted, did you? #UseYourVoice #YourVoteMatters #VoteLeftTransferLeft #GE24

Delighted to receive the IASW The Irish Social Worker and to see an article from Exchange House Ireland National Travellers Service team member in it! Patrick Carlyle shows #PractitionerResearch in action with co-author Calvin Swords examining #malesuicide and the #socialwork response to this

Did you know that there are an increasing number of #PathwaysToSocialWork in Ireland, developed as a way to address the need for a more #Diverse and #Inclusive workforce in #Socialwork #Solidarity #Education4All #InclusiveEducation #GenerationApprenticeship #SocialWorkApprenticeship 1/

www.theguardian.com/wellness/art... #SocialConnection #SocialBeings #HolisticHealth #SocialHealth

“‘They are the last community people are openly racist about’: Sam Wright on his tender portraits of Travellers” - Emma Russell www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Demands for better services are legit but the council can’t meet them with its current funding, the council's CEO says. The council's been told to divert €58m of local property tax next year to cover things that used to be paid for by central govt grants. dublininquirer.com/2...

😍 thank you, Kerry, I really appreciate your kind comments and I was also really honored by Jake McNulty's and Greg Slack's engagement with my work. I'm so glad you were able to catch the webinar and I hope you like the book!! 💖

This is happening at 1pm Eastern today (6pm UK time). I'm super excited for it and I hope you can come! There's still time to register 💃🏿 tinyurl.com/2s4kekw2

Time to #DEAR! This should be of great interest to #socialwork, #antiracist and #criticalreflective #supervision #bluesky. And it’s #openaccess! Sincere thanks to everyone involved in developing and writing this article, it’s so wonderful to see this 👏👏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Here's my column this week, about the astonishing moment in which we find ourselves: facing the greatest predicament humankind has ever confronted, and doing sweet FA about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. People are objecting to my lashing of academics and intellectuals in today's column. I understand (and expected) this. So here’s my reasoning. I chose examples of topics that are endlessly circled by researchers with ever diminishing returns, while huge and existential questions are ignored.🧵

Dealing with #discrimination and #racism remains a consistent reality for our #Traveller friends and colleagues. It is incumbent on allies and supporters to work harder and more cohesively to challenge these injustices on behalf of and with the community dublininquirer.com/2024/11/13/a...