Seamus McDonagh (WP) Workers Party Meath East representative Seamus McDonagh has said that Labour Party leader Joan Burton’s attempts to portray differences with Fine Gael in the run up to the general election will cut no ice with voters who have seen the two government parties cemented to one another like limpets over [...]
Cork Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has accused the Bank of Ireland of introducing an apartheid banking system which would see its counter services all but closed off to working class people. Cllr. Ted Tynan Cllr. Tynan said the bank’s decision to ban counter withdrawals of less than €700 and lodgements under €3,000 [...]
The Workers’ Party have condemned today’s budget as one which has benefitted the better off once again while throwing a few crumbs at workers and the poor with a focus on the general election rather than social justice. Workers’ Party President Michael Donnelly said that for all the hype on the 75% Christmas Bonus for [...]
The Workers’ Party will hold its Ard Fheis / Annual Conference 2015 in Dublin this weekend, gathering at the Communications Workers Union hall, North Circular Road, Dublin 1, on Friday (9th October) and Saturday (10th October). The conference will be attended by over 150 delegates from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and overseas who [...]
Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has described that the government capital spending plan, which is to be launched today, as a “large brown envelope with a hole at both ends” Cllr. Tynan said that the contents of the plan had already been substantially and strategically leaked in advance and almost all of the proposed spending, [...]
The Workers’ Party has condemned the possibility of a company owned by controversial businessman Denis O’Brien being given a contract to provide temporary housing units for homeless families in Dublin. Following a viewing of the modular housing units, Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor, Éilis Ryan, said that the proposal to use them as a stop-gap [...]
The Workers’ Party has dismissed the latest government unemployment figures as coming from “the land of Hocus Pocus” and having little relationship to reality. Workers’ Party spokesman Seamus McDonagh said the figures produced by the Central Statistics Office were based on the most restrictive definition of unemployment possible and did not account for tens of [...]
The Workers’ Party have described the recommendation of a 50 cent per hour increase in the statutory Minimum Wage by the Low Pay Commission as a gross insult to the many thousands of low paid workers in the state. The party’s Dublin councillor Éilis Ryan said that the Low Pay Commission had lived up to [...]
The Workers’ Party have described the government’s decision to sell its remaining 25% share in Aer Lingus as an act of treachery which would have far reaching and damaging consequences for the Irish economy. Workers’ Party President Michael Donnelly said that Aer Lingus had been more than a national flagship for Ireland. The airline, [...]
Wynn's Hotel on Lower Abbey Street in the centre of Dublin was the venue for the public relaunch of the North Dublin branch of the Workers' Party on Saturday, 7th of February. The four hour event was very well attended and saw party members new and old mixing with party supporters and others interested in [...]