Mentorship is key to helping Traveller students progress to third level, according to a member of the Travelling community who has become the first woman in her family to graduate.

Seven times more Traveller men and six times more Traveller women commit suicide compared to the general population, according to figures from the National Traveller Mental Health Network.

Three men have been granted permission by the High Court to challenge an alleged failure by Wicklow County Council to proceed with a process for building three Traveller-specific houses for their families.

Three members of the Traveller community who were served lunch but refused alcohol have failed in their claim of discrimination.

British pubs giant Wetherspoon is backing a campaign to raise awareness of discrimination that Travellers and Gypsies there face in accessing bars and restaurants.

The ISPCA and the Department of Agriculture have backed plans for Cork’s first Traveller horse grazing project.

An audit of Traveller accommodation in the wake of the Carrickmines tragedy has found a litany of potentially lethal safety hazards in the homes across the country.

Some of the traveller families who have been evicted from a halting site in Dundalk, Co Louth, have said they were told to put their children into care, so they could secure accommodation.

Vandalism has delayed the opening of a community centre built in a €5m Traveller housing scheme in Cork.

The deaths of ten people including several children in a blaze has unleashed a devastating earthquake of grief, the funeral of five of the victims has heard.

Some travellers have been forced to live in overcrowded and dangerous situations due to a housing crisis, representatives have claimed.

Gardaí are investigating a fire which destroyed a house in a Traveller accommodation development in Clare.

It is has cost the State at least €300,000 to provide round-the-clock Garda security at a Traveller accommodation building project in Cork City.

A Traveller woman has today lost a Supreme Court appeal challenging the admissions policy of the Christian Brothers High School in Clonmel.

Two politicians have agreed to spend a night at one of the country’s worst Traveller halting sites to experience the appalling conditions.

A large lagoon of water and raw untreated sewage poses a serious health and drowning risk to almost 100 children living alongside it, a damning report has warned.