Colette Kelleher - Independent
Colette is a hardworking advocate for people who are marginalised and vulnerable. Throughout her career in public service and politics she has mobilised positive social change in collaboration with others.
Raised in Macroom in County Cork, from an early age Colette has been passionate about social issues. She studied at University College Cork and University of Southampton. She holds an MBA and is a Certified Practioner in Consulting and Change with the Tavistock Institute.
Colette has championed children’s and women’s rights, strengthening the supports and protections for refugees, highlighting the issues affecting the Travelling community and promoting the need to do more for people with dementia and their carers.
Colette's Key Issues
These are just some of the key issues that Colette Kelleher works on. Find out more about each issue, her background and interest in each of them.
Latest News
Submission to the Law Reform Commission on Adult Safeguarding
Submission to Law Reform Commission on Adult Safeguarding
Motion on the Seanad Public Consultation Committee’s Report on Travellers Towards A More Equitable Ireland Post Recognition
As rapporteur I am delighted that today a motion has been put forward stating that Seanad Éireann notes the Seanad Public Consultation Committee’s Report on Travellers Towards A More Equitable...
Submission to the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality
Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality submission
Thank you to Safeguarding Ireland
One of Colette’s goals as Senator has been working towards better adult safeguarding law, policy and practice in Ireland. So it is an honour to be recognised and thanked by...
Cork Traveller Visibility Group’s Women in Leadership programme visits Leinster House
Members of the Cork Traveller Visibility Group’s Women in Leadership programme visited Leinster House today. It was great to host so many women Traveller activits. They toured Leinster House and...
Saving the vital services and supports at Bessborough
Today Colette spoke to PJ Coogan on Cork’s 96FM on the Bessborough Family Services Centre. The saving of these vital supports and services is really good news for mothers, children...
Visiting the Focus Family Services Centre
Thank you to Hannah O’Leary Jeffers who visited us as part of her TY work experience. While she was here we visited the Simon Community, Irish Traveller Movement and the...
A rent freeze and the law – The Irish Times
Read the letter written by Ann Fitzgerald, Chairwoman of Home for Good, here. In it she outlines how an excessive caution on the part of our politicians, and their advisers,...
Latest Tweets
Today, 18 NGOs in Ireland wrote to @Taoiseach Martin & Ministers @simoncoveney, @HMcEntee, @rodericogorman
& @ThomasByrneTD, requesting the urgent relocation of unaccompanied children & young people from Greece to Ireland following tragic #Moria fires.
PR: https://www.oxfamireland.org/blog/press-releases
The Irish Traveller Movement statement on Fundamental Rights Agency Report on Travellers.
Click the link below to read the full statement and to access the report.
https://itmtrav.ie/irish-traveller-movement-statement-on-fundamental-rights-agency-report-on-travellers/
Misogyny should be made a hate crime to protect women, Law Commission says https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hate-crimes-women-misogyny-sex-gender-law-commission-review-b535161.html
Travellers have highest rate of acute poverty in Europe, report shows https://www.e-pages.dk/irishtimes/2219/article/1214464/4/1/render/?token=490e265b2a6c549d9a99d086b2215e44&vl_platform=ios&vl_app_id=ie.irishtimes.ereader&vl_app_version=4.0.2
I spoke to Senator Eileen Flynn @Love1solidarity about her experience of motherhood, and feeling undermined as a Traveller woman for the Parenting in my Shoes series in The Irish Times @IT_HealthPlus. https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/parenting/eileen-flynn-as-a-traveller-woman-i-was-undermined-in-the-maternity-hospital-1.4354484
great to see our letter on children in care and education published in the Irish Times today. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/educational-needs-of-children-in-care-1.4360745
It still amazes me how the most racist bigot in Ireland will still look over his shoulder before saying the word n*gger but the wokest lefty in Ireland will still have no bother shouting the word kn*cker from the rooftops
