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Norah’s Traveller Academy RTÉ 2
The Other Side of the Story – watch this powerful video about life as a young Traveller in Ireland
Norah Casey’s first summer job at 16 was selling continental quilts for a Traveller boss. Since then she has admired Traveller’s business skills and entrepreneurial drive. In this new series Norah is mentoring four young Traveller women in the world of business. She is giving them access and insights, developing their skills and hopefully helping them succeed in their new business ventures.
The women Norah has picked to work with (all twenty-somethings) have very different skills yet all have bags of determination and drive. Ann-Rose spends as much time as she can altering and up styling clothes for Traveller girls and women at home on her kitchen table. Tracie is a journalist who works for The Voice of the Traveller magazine. Leanne studied Fine Art in The Crawford College or Art and Design in Cork (only 1% of Travellers go on third level education). And Christine has a qualification in gel and acrylic nails and wants to set up a mobile glamour unit.
Norah is determined to help all these young women set up their own businesses, that will function and operate both within, and even more challengingly, outside their own community. Her ambition is great for them, but so too is her business knowledge, conviction and contact list!
Norah’s Traveller Academy is groundbreaking Irish television, where we are genuinely seeing into the lives of these young ambitious Traveller women and their journey to creating viable businesses in a country where they still experience prejudice and exclusion.
Media Coverage for Norah’s Traveller Academy
Norah’s Traveller Academy trended on twitter from the first episode with an overwhelmingly positive reaction on social media, press, radio and television. The programme changed the lives of four women but also changed perceptions about Travellers in Ireland.
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Below is just a small selection of the significant media coverage for this landmark series
The Saturday Night Show: Norah and the women from the series
The Independent: New Beauty Line
The Sunday World: Changing Opinions about Travellers
The Irish Times: Telling the Traveller Story
The Irish Times: The Traveller Voice Magazine Relaunched
The Irish Examiner: Norah speaks out about loss and her new programme on Travellers
Entertainment.ie: Norah’s Traveller Academy
Visual Artists Ireland: Leanne McDonagh – new RTE2 series
Youth.ie: Watch this powerful video and change perceptions
Dailyedege.ie: Autumn Schedule – Norah’s Traveller Academy
Chemistry.ie: Creating a brand for Ann Rose Mongan
Cork Independent: Norah’s Traveller Academy
Talktalk.co.uk: Norah’s Traveller Academy
Broadsheet.ie: Travellers RTE2
The Irish Mirror: Jean Byrne wears collar designed by Ann Rose Mongan
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