The TEJP welcomes the recent High Court judicial review, O'Neill v. Atlantic Troy Ltd [2024] IEHC 541 where Mr Justice Barry O'Donnell  found that a young Traveller family were subject to an “unfair” Circuit Court discrimination appeal.

The TEJP has received funding from the Council of Europe, Roma and Travellers Division for September-December 2024 for activities under the 'Rights Aware,' project, which seeks to build capacity for Roma and Traveller Civil Society organisations to use Council of Europe standards and mechanisms for promoting rights of Roma and Travellers.

The Traveller Court Supports Initiative visit Washington St, Courthouse for a tour of the historic building by Mary-Clare Kearney.  The TCSI which is an exciting project, provides six Traveller women with legal training and courtroom experience. The aim of which is to provide culturally-appropriate peer support workers, who will act as 'court buddies' for other Travellers taking civil or family cases to the courts.  The TCSI is the first such programme in Ireland to be codesigned and advanced in partnership with Traveller organisation partners in Cork, the Court Service and the School of Law, UCC. In providing and training culturally-appropriate court support workers, the TCSI seeks to respond to the barriers to justice experienced by Traveller litigants within the civil system.