Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
To mark Traveller Ethnicity Day and International Women’s Day, Trinity College Dublin hosted a special conversation in the Trinity Long Room Hub with Provost Linda Doyle and post graduate student in the Trinity school of Social Work and Social Policy, Nora Corcoran.
Nora, a member of the Traveller community, works with the Galway Traveller Movement and is active in advocacy, grassroots activism, and the Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures. Nora has credited Trinity in strengthening her confidence and developing skills and knowledge that shape her daily work and her commitment to lifelong learning and community empowerment.
Travellers remain significantly underrepresented in higher education, with Census 2022 showing that only 4.7% of Travellers hold a third‑level qualification compared with 47.7% of the general population. However, progress is evident: the number of Travellers with a third‑level qualification has almost doubled in recent years, rising from 167 in 2016 to 312 in 2022.
Since 2016, thirteen students from Traveller and Roma backgrounds have enrolled in the Trinity Access Programmes (TAP) Foundation Course, with nine progressing to degree programmes in Trinity. You can find out more at www.tcd.ie/trinityaccess/
https://www.tcd.ie/
To mark Traveller Ethnicity Day and International Women’s Day, Trinity College Dublin hosted a special conversation in the Trinity Long Room Hub with Provost Linda Doyle and post graduate student in the Trinity school of Social Work and Social Policy, Nora Corcoran.
Nora, a member of the Traveller community, works with the Galway Traveller Movement and is active in advocacy, grassroots activism, and the Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures. Nora has credited Trinity in strengthening her confidence and developing skills and knowledge that shape her daily work and her commitment to lifelong learning and community empowerment.
Travellers remain significantly underrepresented in higher education, with Census 2022 showing that only 4.7% of Travellers hold a third‑level qualification compared with 47.7% of the general population. However, progress is evident: the number of Travellers with a third‑level qualification has almost doubled in recent years, rising from 167 in 2016 to 312 in 2022.
Since 2016, thirteen students from Traveller and Roma backgrounds have enrolled in the Trinity Access Programmes (TAP) Foundation Course, with nine progressing to degree programmes in Trinity. You can find out more at www.tcd.ie/trinityaccess/
https://www.tcd.ie/
