First Traveller to earn a PhD: Sindy Joyce is an inspiration

Dr Sindy Joyce doesn’t feel comfortable being a role model, yet there is no doubt that she is exactly that, having become the first Traveller in Ireland to graduate with a PhD, gaining her doctorate at the University of Limerick.

Ms Joyce reveals that she is “really proud to be the first in the Mincéir (Traveller) community to receive a doctorate”, but sad that it has taken until 2019 for this to happen.