The Workers’ Party has called on the government to immediately take over the burial grounds of the former Bessboro Mother & Baby home in Blackrock on the Southside of Cork city. Workers’ Party Cork Councillor Ted Tynan said that following the partial demolition of the old building known as Bessboro folly over last weekend on [...]
The Workers’ Party has welcomed today’s (Thursday) unanimous ‘Not Guilty’ verdict in the case of the six men charged with the alleged false imprisonment of former Labour Party Tánaiste Joan Burton. Workers’ Party representative Seamus McDonagh said the result was the only credible one which could have been delivered in the light of the evidence [...]
There have been warnings that the Director of Public Prosecution's (DPP's) attempts to curtail representation of a broad set of activists on the jury of the Jobstown trial, could undermine the defendant's right to a fair trial. Responding to the DPP's office's calls for the exclusion of jurors who are from Tallaght, were active in [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan Information has emerged that Kieran Mulvey’s report into tackling violence in Dublin’s north inner city will be launched this Thursday (16th February) - without any formal invitation or notification being issued to the North Inner City Community Coalition, the main community stakeholder in the area. The move has led to [...]
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 [...]
The need to place the wholesale reform of the policing service on top of the political agenda is clear from ongoing campaign of arrests targeting political activists and the working class community of Jobstown, according to Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor Éilis Ryan. “In recent days what has been witnessed is not only clearly policing driven by [...]
