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Search By Live95 News Team Two Limerick adult learning initiatives have been shortlisted for the prestigious AONTAS Star Award.
The East Limerick Traveller Project, which works with the Traveller Community to improve health outcomes and quality of life, is contending in the Health and Wellbeing Category.
The second Limerick group is the LINC Programme, which offers a free one year blended learning programme for adult learners in the Irish Childcare sector and has been picked for the Social Inclusion Category.
The award recognises and celebrates the work undertaken by adult learning initiatives throughout Ireland and winners will be chosen at the beginning of next month.
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A number of Traveller organisations have called on Travellers to fully adhere to public health measures, including restrictions on funerals.
It follows a plea from the Deputy Chief Medical Officer earlier this week for people to respect the ten-person limit because of the number of large outbreaks throughout the country which have been associated with funerals.
There are currently 36 active outbreaks of Covid-19 in the Traveller Community, with 11 of them reported in the past week.
Traveller organisations say while they understand the importance of funerals to bereaved families, these families may not be in a position to get the message across, that it is okay to stay away.
Traveller woman awarded €15,000 in hotel wedding discrimination case
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A maximum award of €15,000 has been awarded to a member of the Traveller Community against a hotel for discrimination in what is being described as a significant case for the Traveller Community and businesses.
The Workplace Relations Commission has found in favour of a Traveller woman in an anonymised case in which she claimed that she was discriminated against by a hotel where she was considering having her wedding reception.
The hotel, which provided no defence or did not attend a hearing, was shown not to be responsive to the woman’s initial email enquiries regarding a booking for her wedding until such time as it was established that she was a Traveller, at this point the hotel adopted a dismissive attitude towards the woman and ceased engaging with her enquiries, preventing her from making a booking.
In August, there was cause for celebration following the miraculous rescue of two cousins who spent 15 hours stranded at sea. Ellen Glynn and Sara Feeney got into difficulty after going paddleboarding at Furbo Beach in Co Galway. A major search and rescue operation was launched after the young women failed to return to shore and many feared the worst.
1. Galway ‘miracle’ rescue
The next morning, however, the pair were discovered by local fisherman Patrick Oliver and his son Morgan. Oliver used his fishing experience to predict where the young women might have drifted and located them some 17 miles from where they had last been seen.