Over 20,000 living in deprivation in Minister Donohoe’s constituency The Workers’ Party candidate in Dublin Central, Cllr Eilis Ryan, today (Sunday) said that Fine Gael’s claims of economic recovery are ringing hollow in Dublin Central, where an estimated 20,000 people are suffering multiple deprivation experiences based on an extrapolation from CSO figures. “Fine Gael’s Minister [...]
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 [...]
Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that the state should compulsorily buy back the Whitegate Refinery in Cork Harbour which was sold to the US mulitnational oil company Conoco Philips in 2002 for just €100m in a deal which included the Whiddy Island storage facility and a Dublin office block. Cllr. Tynan said that [...]
Cork North Central Workers’ Party candidate councillor Ted Tynan has condemned the government decision to introduce “Pay by Weight” charges for domestic refuse and says the move will be completely counterproductive. He also accused the government of keeping quiet about the new rules which will cause refuse charges to rocket upwards once the election is [...]
Workers Party Dublin Central candidate Cllr. Éilis Ryan has expressed support for the 580 Xtravision workers who have been made redundant and are now fighting for entitlements they were promised would be secured. Cllr. Ryan said that more than four years after the Vita Cortex debacle in Cork in which employees had to sit-in their [...]
The Workers’ Party has said that the report of the Banking Inquiry, published today (Wednesday) is worthless because the inquiry was a toothless tiger that was meant to fail and missed the point completely. Workers’ Party Meath East candidate Seamus McDonagh said the inquiry had been an expensive waste of money and could never have [...]
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. [...]
Some of the Workers' Party contingent at the Dublin Right2Water march Despite continuous incessant rain across Ireland today thousands of people turned out for the latest in a series of Right 2 Water marches in protest against the double taxation of Water Charges and the continued metering programme of Irish Water, the [...]
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 [...]
The Workers’ Party has described the opening of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzterland as the annual outing of world leaders to receive their orders on how to run the world economy from the economic elite of conglomerates, multinationals and the super-rich. Calling for disestablishment of the forum, Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan said [...]