Kathleen Lawrence

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From left, sisters Philomena Connors, Helen O’Donoghue, Anne O’Reilly, Bridget O’Reilly, Mary Moran, Margaret Hutchinson and Kathleen O’Driscoll leaving court after their father was jailed for 20 years for their abuse. Photograph: Collins Courts
‘Settled women talk of glass ceilings, Traveller women are still outside looking through the window’
  • People
  • August 15, 2020, 06:00

“The function of freedom is to free somebody else” This quote from African-American feminist Toni Morrison has particular resonance for the O’Reilly(...)

Carmel Winters, producer of the film Float Like a Butterfly, at the Traveller Pride Awards in the Pillar Room at the Rotunda Hospital where she presented the Charleville Women’s group from Cork with the award for arts and culture. Photograph: James Forde
Ireland’s Got Talent finalist Sharyn Ward wins annual Traveller award

A finalist from last month’s Ireland’s Got Talent competition was among eight winners at the annual Traveller Pride Awards in Dublin, presented on Thu(...)

Bernard Sweeney (left), host of TraVision, with guests Martin Collins, Vincent Browne and Kathleen Lawrence, in Pavee Point, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Guests on new Traveller-led channel to include Peter Casey

Among the guests a new Traveller-led video channel hopes to have on in coming weeks is former presidential candidate Peter Casey. TraVision founder B(...)

Maynooth university graduate Kathleen Lawrence: ‘When I first came into the school the teacher gave me a colouring book and said I didn’t need to learn Irish.’ Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
‘A Traveller going to university shouldn’t be news’

When Kathleen Lawrence (31) was told as a child by her teacher that she was “stupid” she resolved that no one would ever call her that again. The you(...)