The highlight of the event will be the Traveller got Talent competition where Travellers will show their talent

In what has long been a problematic, and unaddressed sector of Irish public health, shockingly, half of all Irish Travellers don’t live beyond their 40th birthday, while 70 per cent fail to make it past 60.

"We have quite a high traveller population in Athy and there was a need to have a presence there with the work we do with the community"