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Light rail for Cork an election stunt says Coffey

Catherine Coffey, Workers’ Party candidate for Cork City North West said that there was no faith in the present government’s ability to deliver a light rail service to Cork city when it   cannot provide adequate numbers of modern vehicles for the existing bus service. Photoshopping a Dublin Luas tram into Washington Street does not make [...]

2019-05-19T09:59:58+00:00May 14th, 2019|

Workers’ Party solidarity message to CP of Sri Lanka

The Workers' Party of Ireland has sent the following message of solidarity to the Communist Party and people of Sri Lanka following Sunday's horrific bombing. To: Central Committee, Communist Party of Sri-Lanka Dear comrades, The Workers Party of Ireland extends its solidarity to the Communist Party and the people of Sri-Lanka and condemns the vicious [...]

2019-04-23T09:35:22+00:00April 23rd, 2019|

One in Six live in poverty, yet Victorian attitudes prevail

The revelation that 760,000 people, one sixth of the Republic of Ireland’s population, are living in poverty will surprise only those who have never experienced poverty, according to the Workers’ Party Catherine Coffey Cork City North West Workers’ Party candidate Catherine Coffey said that the latest statistics laid bare by Social Justice Ireland only show [...]

2019-05-19T09:59:58+00:00April 15th, 2019|

EU-Trump trade talks a victory for business over environment, says Workers’ Party Euro candidate

Workers’ Party candidate in the Dublin European elections, Cllr. Éilis Ryan, has condemned the Irish government’s vote in favour of opening trade negotiations with Donald Trump and the US government, at a meeting of the European Council this morning (Monday). Cllr. Ryan said: “These trade talks show that the European Commission and the Irish government [...]

2019-05-19T09:59:58+00:00April 15th, 2019|

Assange arrest demonstrates need for European protections for whistleblowers, says MEP candidate

European election candidate Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers' Party), has condemned the arrest of Julian Assange this morning in the UK, and called for stronger European protections for whistleblowers.  Cllr. Ryan said:  "Assange's arrest was, according the UK policy, carried out 'on behalf of the US government,' and in relation to charges which the US has [...]

2019-05-19T09:59:58+00:00April 11th, 2019|

HSE recruitment freeze is a sign of times to come with downturn on the horizon

The HSE’s recruitment freeze is a sign of further austerity on the horizon from Fine Gael, as the global economy stalls. That’s according to Workers’ Party city councillor and Euro candidate Éilis Ryan. Ryan said: “There is an obvious hypocrisy in Fine Gael committing to solving understaffing on the one hand, and imposing a recruitment [...]

2019-05-19T09:59:58+00:00April 7th, 2019|

NO TO WAR! NO TO NATO!

Statement by the Workers Party on 70 years of NATO Today is the seventieth anniversary of the foundation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). On 3rd and 4th April foreign ministers from NATO countries are meeting in Washington D.C.  This is no cause for celebration. NATO is an aggressive imperialist war machine that expresses [...]

2019-05-19T09:59:59+00:00April 4th, 2019|

Dublin councillor accuses city officials of hypocrisy for hosting Vienna housing exhibition

Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor Éilis Ryan has condemned what she says is the  hypocrisy of Dublin City officials opening housing exhibition on Vienna’s housing model, today (Tuesday, 2ndApril) while refusing to contemplate similar public housing schemes in Dublin. Cllr. Ryan said:  “In 2016, I secured support from Dublin City Council for the ‘Vienna Model of [...]

2019-05-19T09:59:59+00:00April 2nd, 2019|

Discovery of heroin kits raises concern in Cork

Cork City North West Workers’ Party candidate Catherine Coffey has expressed concern after the discovery of a number of both opened and unopend heroin treatment kits across the Northside of the city. Heroin injection kit found on Cork footpath Catherine Coffey said that she had found an unopened heroin treatment  in her own area while [...]

2019-05-19T09:59:59+00:00April 1st, 2019|

John Delaney must remove himself completely from the FAI, says Workers’ Party representative

Workers’ Party representative in Palmerstown-Fonthill, David Gardiner, has called on John Delaney to remove himself complete from the FAI, following his resignation as CEO yesterday (Saturday). Gardiner said: “As an lifelong supporter of St. Patrick’s Athletic, I have seen how John Delaney for too long stood in the way of the democratic development of the [...]

2019-05-19T09:59:59+00:00March 24th, 2019|