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Workers’ Party walks out of Dublin City Council meeting in protest at Obama Freedom of the City award

Labour Lord Mayor Brendan Carr's choice of candidate for Freedom of Dublin City has provoked strong reaction at Dublin City Council's monthly meeting tonight (6th February). Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers' Party) said: "To grant Dublin's highest honour to a man responsible for inflicting such harm on communities across the globe, does a great disservice to [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:34+00:00February 6th, 2017|

Michael O’Leary is Ireland’s Donald Trump

Workers' Party representative slams O'Leary's far-right comments Jimmy Dignam, Workers' Party representative Dublin North West Workers' Party Dublin North-West representative, Jimmy Dignam, has described Michael O'Leary's comments at Fine Gael's fundraiser as 'far-right' and 'dangerous'. Dignam stated: 'Michael O'Leary's comments at Fine Gael's pre-budget fundraising event were repulsive by even his own low [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:40+00:00October 9th, 2016|

Workers’ Party welcomes lifting of blood ban

Jimmy Dignam The Workers’ Party has welcomed the recommendation of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service to end the lifetime ban on gay men donating blood and calls on the Minister for Health, Simon Harris, to respond to the recommendation based on scientific evidence, not stigma or fear. “In the last fortnight we have [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:45+00:00June 24th, 2016|

Workers’ Party responds to New Education Strategy 2016-2018

The Workers' Party submission to the Department of Education and Skills with reference to the New Education Strategy 2016-2018 highlights a number of salient points regarding our education system in general and more specifically regarding education proposals contained in the Programme for a Partnership Government 2016.  

2019-05-19T10:00:45+00:00June 18th, 2016|

Ryan criticises failure to recommend increased role for state as main social housing driver

Only public sector rental can reduce rents to affordable levels In an initial response today (Friday June 17th) to the publication of the Oireachtas Committee on Housing and Homelessness report, Workers’ Party Councillor Éilís Ryan said that the report ‘lacked ambition’ and expressed disappointment at the Committee’s failure to recommend an increased role for the [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:45+00:00June 17th, 2016|

Lip service by Government advocating a fair and compassionate society is not enough

The attached submission has been sent to Mr Richard Bruton, Minister for Education with regard to the development of a new Strategy for Education and Skills (2016 – 2018) on behalf of the Workers’ Party, Dublin Mid-West Constituency. Mid-West has vast areas of poverty and educational deprivation with extremely low accession rates to third level. [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:46+00:00June 7th, 2016|