The key to “normalising” that community is educating and empowering the women.
Good news
Great. A good example of how and where affirmative action, to borrow an Americanism, works.
21 graduates. That could be close to a hundred people between them and their children given the chance to lift themselves out of poverty.
Fantastic.
Congrats to them.
A good news story. Congrats to traveller women
That’s a very life affirming buy of news. Congratulations to them all
Class achievement considering how many dont get to complete 2nd level education
Fantastic
Well done on them. Huge achievements
Are there any links available about this specific program they were part of? The rte link does not seem to be providing any. Would love to look at how it operates. How candidates are selected, courses available to select from, testing methods and success or failure rates etc. If anyone can provide anything would be appreciated
God bless and good luck
Absolutely hup the girls, congratulations to them!
We have a traveller work at the place I work. Great guy and works hard. Its a low level job. Upper management made the comment recently ‘how did this fall through the cracks?’ i.e. how did he get the job. I felt sick when I heard this. Job means so much to the lad and when he got made permanent he was the first person I ever saw bursting with pride to get paid minimum wage. It’s a relatively big company that prides it self on diversity and inclusion. I for one am delighted to see the travelling community do well. They need more support.
I work in a Munster school and see the traveller girls trying their best. The lads are doing their own thing.
Glad to hear it. Congrats!!!!
Great news.Congratulations to them all.
This is great to see. Thanks for sharing. It’s good to see a positive news story about Travellers on here.
Gwan the girls! Hopefully the lads follow suit. Education is empowerment.
What a fantasic achievement, class. Well done girls
Delighted for these ladies! Well done!
Fair play.
More than I ever did.
Fair play to them, not only being members of the travelling community but also women – it must have been extra tough for them with the local supports available in their community (or maybe they were actually supportive, who knows?)
They likely will lead their children by example and hopefully will pass down their culture down to them in a manner that’s civilised.
Fantastic. I often think of the two girls I went to school with, They both dropped out before the Junior cert and I was sad for them as they were the two smartest girls in the class while us monkeys caused havoc everyday. I always hoped they went on and did well but as I got older I realised that probably wasn’t the case due to the expectations of women in that community. Good to see the tide is turning…
This is brilliant to see. Fair play!!
Okay when I saw the headline I was expecting it to be about 21 women from traveller backgrounds graduate with bachelor degrees across different disciplines, when I read the article it seems it was 2 year diploma programme that was only 2 mornings week, and created specifically for them.
I think it reminded how far actually we have to go.
Fair play to them, can’t be a easy thing to do on many levels.
Well done ladies. What a great step towards equality and employment.
All the women of Ireland are proud of your achievements today. I love seeing people raise each other up to achieve great things.❤❤❤
Don’t see how this can be seen as anything other than a good news story. Denigrating the value of the qualification is not really that helpful.
Everyone should cheer this on, more encouragement means more successes will be achieved.
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The key to “normalising” that community is educating and empowering the women.
Good news
Great. A good example of how and where affirmative action, to borrow an Americanism, works.
21 graduates. That could be close to a hundred people between them and their children given the chance to lift themselves out of poverty.
Fantastic.
Congrats to them.
A good news story. Congrats to traveller women
That’s a very life affirming buy of news. Congratulations to them all
Class achievement considering how many dont get to complete 2nd level education
Fantastic
Well done on them. Huge achievements
Are there any links available about this specific program they were part of? The rte link does not seem to be providing any. Would love to look at how it operates. How candidates are selected, courses available to select from, testing methods and success or failure rates etc. If anyone can provide anything would be appreciated
God bless and good luck
Absolutely hup the girls, congratulations to them!
We have a traveller work at the place I work. Great guy and works hard. Its a low level job. Upper management made the comment recently ‘how did this fall through the cracks?’ i.e. how did he get the job. I felt sick when I heard this. Job means so much to the lad and when he got made permanent he was the first person I ever saw bursting with pride to get paid minimum wage. It’s a relatively big company that prides it self on diversity and inclusion. I for one am delighted to see the travelling community do well. They need more support.
I work in a Munster school and see the traveller girls trying their best. The lads are doing their own thing.
Glad to hear it. Congrats!!!!
Great news.Congratulations to them all.
This is great to see. Thanks for sharing. It’s good to see a positive news story about Travellers on here.
Gwan the girls! Hopefully the lads follow suit. Education is empowerment.
What a fantasic achievement, class. Well done girls
Delighted for these ladies! Well done!
Fair play.
More than I ever did.
Fair play to them, not only being members of the travelling community but also women – it must have been extra tough for them with the local supports available in their community (or maybe they were actually supportive, who knows?)
They likely will lead their children by example and hopefully will pass down their culture down to them in a manner that’s civilised.
Fantastic. I often think of the two girls I went to school with, They both dropped out before the Junior cert and I was sad for them as they were the two smartest girls in the class while us monkeys caused havoc everyday. I always hoped they went on and did well but as I got older I realised that probably wasn’t the case due to the expectations of women in that community. Good to see the tide is turning…
This is brilliant to see. Fair play!!
Okay when I saw the headline I was expecting it to be about 21 women from traveller backgrounds graduate with bachelor degrees across different disciplines, when I read the article it seems it was 2 year diploma programme that was only 2 mornings week, and created specifically for them.
I think it reminded how far actually we have to go.
Fair play to them, can’t be a easy thing to do on many levels.
Well done ladies. What a great step towards equality and employment.
All the women of Ireland are proud of your achievements today. I love seeing people raise each other up to achieve great things.❤❤❤
Don’t see how this can be seen as anything other than a good news story. Denigrating the value of the qualification is not really that helpful.
Everyone should cheer this on, more encouragement means more successes will be achieved.