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NUI Galway launches events to mark Irish Traveller Ethnicity Day
President of Ireland Michael D Higgins led the opening of the week-long celebrations to mark Irish Traveller Ethnicity with a keynote address, exploring rights and other issues for the Traveller community.
Fourteen Travellers take their first steps towards higher education
A group of 14 Irish Travellers have been recognised at a special ceremony after completing NUI Galway Access Centre’s first Educational Transition Project (ETP).
NUI Galway Mincéirs Whiden Society honours founding member
The Mincéirs Whiden Society at NUI Galway has made its founding member Owen Patrick Ward an honorary life member.
First Traveller elected to NUI Galway’s governing body
Owen Ward, an Irish Traveller and a professional master of education student at NUI Galway, has been elected by postgraduate students onto the university’s Údarás na hOllscoile — the university’s governing body. This is the first time that an Irish Traveller has been elected onto a university governing body in Ireland.
