Citizens’ Assembly puts ball in Fine Gael court to legislate for freely available abortion Workers' Party activists including Seamus McDonagh with the party's Repeal the 8th Amendment banner in Dublin last week The Workers’ Party has said that the concluding votes of the Citizens’ Assembly show a clear mandate for freely available access to [...]
Séamus McDonagh, Workers' Party representative for Meath, has called for the government to step into the Bus Éireann dispute, by putting in place a Registered Employment Agreement (REA) for bus workers. Speaking following the breakdown of talks today (April 11th) McDonagh said: The breakdown of talks today come as no suprise to workers in Bus [...]
Bus Éireann workers have today lodged a petition with RTÉ calling for fair coverage of strike action. The letter, which was drafted and submitted by the Workers’ Party with hundreds of signatures from Bus Éireann workers in Meath, Cork and Dublin, expressed its disappointment at the bias of RTÉ coverage in favour of Bus Éireann [...]
Ashbourne councillor Alan Tobin has come in for criticism following comments that he made in opposition to 67 proposed units of social housing in the town. Speaking in reaction to the comments, Séamus McDonagh (Workers’ Party representative, Co. Meath), said: “Cllr. Tobin’s comments – that building social housing would turn an estate into a ‘no-go’ [...]
Seamus McDonagh (WP) The Workers’ Party have said that the proposed closure of at least 80 post offices, most of them in rural areas, would amount to “another nail in the coffin of rural Ireland” and the party has called on the government to stop the plan going ahead. Meath East Workers’ Party [...]
WP Meath representative Seamus McDonagh A consultation process on the ‘baptism barrier’ in primary school admissions, launched today (16th January) by education Minister Richard Bruton, has come under fire for being a “consultation on whether or not to segregate children". Speaking following the launch of the consultation process, Workers’ Party representative Séamus McDonagh [...]
WP Meath representative Seamus McDonagh The Workers’ Party have said that Housing Minister Simon Coveney and his colleagues can bring in bills on various aspects of housing rental until the cows come home but none of these will have any significant effect on the housing crisis as long as the government refuses to [...]
The Workers’ Party have described the proposals of the so-called expert commission on water charges as a back door to future reintroduction of a full charging system. WP Meath representative Seamus McDonagh Workers’ Party spokesperson Seamus McDonagh described the proposals as unworkable. “As long as metering is in place the mechanism for [...]
WP Meath representative Seamus McDonagh Meath East Workers’ Party representative Seamus McDonagh has said that those on Meath County Council’s housing list wanted to see action in the form of new local authority houses, not to witness a “Punch & Judy” show between Junior Housing Minister Damien English and local councillors. Mr. McDonagh said the [...]
The Workers’ Party has condemned the guilty verdict against a Tallaght teenager charged in relation to the alleged false imprisonment of Joan Burton at the 2014 Jobstown protest. Workers’ Party spokesperson Seamus McDonagh described the verdict as vindictive and politically motivated adding that the decision could impose a lifelong stain on the character of a [...]
