Jimmy DIgnam

Workers’ Party President Mick Donnelly issues final appeal urging voters to support party’s candidates

The President of the Workers’ Party, Michael Donnelly, has issued a  final appeal urging voters to support the party’s candidates in Friday’s general election “Votes for the Workers’ Party in Friday’s general election are votes for radical progressive policies and for an end to the cronyism and corruption of the big four parties”, said Michael [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:50+00:00February 24th, 2016|

Focus should be on job creation not forcing people into low-paid work and internships

Focus should be on job creation not forcing people into low-paid work and internships Restore Under 25s Jobseekers payments to full adult rate Dublin North West Workers’ Party candidate Jimmy Dignam  has said governments should focus on the creation of real, sustainable and properly paid jobs instead of the current focus on forcing people into [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:51+00:00February 19th, 2016|

Dignam says Focus Ireland homeless figures show toll of crisis on Dublin working class communities

Jimmy Dignam, the Workers' Party candidate in Dublin North West, responded this morning (Wednesday)  to figures from a study on homelessness carried out by Focus Ireland, saying:  'These figures clearly give the lie to any notion of recovery in working class areas.” Dignam continued: “The Workers' Party recently sought a breakdown of the number of [...]

2016-02-17T09:15:48+00:00February 17th, 2016|

Workers Party candidate expresses solidarity to water protesters as case begins

The Workers’ Party candidate in Dublin North West, Jimmy Dignam, has offered his solidarity and support to the water charges protestors before the criminal courts this week. Dignam said, ‘These trumped up charges are a clear case of political policing and are designed to intimidate citizens from showing their opposition to the austerity agenda of [...]

2016-02-15T18:30:25+00:00February 15th, 2016|

WP targetting seat in Cork North Central, expects strong showing elsewhere

Workers Party President Mick Donnelly (Back) with candidates (L-R) Cllr. Ted Tynan, Jimmy Dignam, Seamus McDonagh, Cllr. Éilis Ryan and Lorraine Hennessy A resurgent Workers’ Party is running five candidates in the forthcoming General Election, and today said that it expects to be in the hunt for the final seat in Cork North [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:52+00:00February 14th, 2016|

Banks are Frankenstein’s monster that will return to haunt the Irish people

In response to increasing expectations among financial analysts and journalists of an impending stock market crash, Jimmy Dignam, the Workers’ Party candidate for Dublin North West has said that Ireland’s banking system is an unreformed Frankenstein’s monster that could cause a repeat of the economic catastrophe of 2008 / 2009. Jimmy Dignam Dignam [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:52+00:00February 12th, 2016|

Rejuvenated Workers’ Party seek to empower the working class

The announcement of February 26th as the date for the 2016 general election hasn’t come a moment too soon according to the Workers’ Party. The Party’s President Michael Donnelly said that the long drawn out announcement of the election date by Taoiseach Enda Kenny amounted to “the greatest walk of shame in the annals of [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:53+00:00February 3rd, 2016|

Dignam says Simon Housing Survey shows need for proper rent controls‏

Responding to the latest Simon Community housing report ‘‘Locked Out of the Market III: The Gap Between Rent Supplement/HAP Limits and Market Rents’’, Jimmy Dignam, The Workers’ Party candidate for Dublin North West, said that it highlighted the urgent need for the proper rent controls to ensure affordable rents for tenants in the private sector. [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:54+00:00January 27th, 2016|

Action needed urgently to deal with crisis in health system

Workers' Party Dublin North West candidate Jimmy Dignam has urged the government to start taking the crisis in the health system seriously. Speaking in response to the news that Beaumont Hospital is postponing non-urgent procedures today, Dignam said, "the Government and Minister Varadkar need to stop sitting on their hands pretending the crisis has nothing [...]

2016-02-15T16:09:42+00:00January 22nd, 2016|

Dignam welcomes Educate Together Secondary School for Whitehall and Glasnevin

Workers' Party representative for Whitehall and Glasnevin, Jimmy Dignam, has welcomed the news that an Educate Together Secondary School is to open in the area in September. Dignam stated, The announcement by the City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Educate Together that the new school will be co-located in the building currently occupied [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:54+00:00January 14th, 2016|