Fr. Peter McVerry welcomes ‘Solidarity Housing’ as important contribution to thinking on housing ‘Solidarity Housing’ model would expand public housing provision at reduced cost to State Proposals form viable state-led alternative to Housing Land Initiative The Workers’ Party today (Monday May 9th) published Solidarity Housing: Getting the vultures out of Irish Housing, a costed proposal [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has called on those independent TDs currently contemplating doing a deal to return Enda Kenny and Fine Gael to government to make an issue of the the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and demand an end to the secrecy surrounding the subject. Workers’ Party Dublin Central Councillor [...]
The Workers’ Party have said that a new report by the Irish Cancer Society into waiting times for people requiring urgent medical investigation or treatment into potentially life-threatening cancers is a damning indictment of Ireland’s class and income based health care system. Cork Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan said that the report clearly showed a [...]
The Workers Party has flatly rejected claims by the Department of Social Protection that criticism of the JobBridge internship scheme is unfounded. Low paid and exploitation encouraged by JobBridge Dublin North West Workers’ Party representative Jimmy Dignam said that far from being an unbalanced or unfounded representation of the extent of exploitation under [...]
Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has strongly condemned last Monday night’s vicious attack against a Polish family in Mayfield, saying racist attacks are completely unacceptable in any area. Cllr. Tynan, who has spoken to many local residents on a number of occasions since Monday, described the attack as despicable and has called for the restoration and [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan Ted Tynan, Workers' Party councillor in Cork city, said; “If the Office of Public Works had produced the 300 maps that were due in March 2014 instead of the 50 that were produced, could homes destroyed in the subsequent floods have been protected? And in the 73 months from February [...]
In light of yesterday's announcement that TXFM is set to stop airing, the Workers' Party has called on the State's broadcaster, RTÉ, to take over the license. Jimmy Dignam, Workers' Party Dublin North-West representative, stated: “As with all forms of art and music, it is essential that diversity is provided across the spectrum. TXFM, and [...]
WP Assembly Candidates 2016 The Workers' Party will be contesting the forthcoming Northern Ireland Assembly elections with the following candidates: Conor Campbell - West Belfast Damien Harte - Upper Bann Lily Kerr - South Belfast Hugh Scullion - Mid Ulster Gemma Weir - North Belfast In a joint statement the candidates said, [...]
The Workers’ Party have called on the leadership of the Right2Water campaign to organise a further national rally against the water charges in order to increase the pressure on political parties and deputies who had been elected on a mandate to abolish water charges and Irish Water to keep those promises. Workers’ Party spokesperson Seamus [...]
Gemma Weir is to stand as the Workers Party’s North Belfast candidate in May’s Assembly Elections. Gemma Weir She was confirmed as the party’s choice at an election rally held on Sunday. Gemma, who polled almost one thousand votes in last year’s Westminster elections, used the rally to set out her manifesto saying [...]
