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Tribute to May Mac Giolla by Workers’ Party President Michael Donnelly

Personal tribute to May Mac Giolla by Workers' Party President Michael Donnelly Workers' Party President Michael Donnelly I first met May many years ago back in the early 1970’s through her husband Tomás , when I was then a delegate from the North West Region of the Party representing Derry & Strabane at [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:12+00:00March 31st, 2018|

Tribute to Friend and Comrade Mhaire Bhean Mhic Giolla

Tribute to Friend and Comrade Mhaire Bhean Mhic Giolla by Sean Garland, National Treasurer The Workers' Party of Ireland Thursday 29th March 2018 Comrades May Mac Giolla, Tomas Mac Giolla and Sean Garland Carmel, Danny, Comrades, Friends and Members of Maire Bhean’s extended family. On this sad occasion we will pay a grateful [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:12+00:00March 31st, 2018|

Death of May Mac Giolla, Workers’ Party member and widow of former Lord Mayor of Dublin Tomás MacGiolla

May MacGiolla’s lifetime spanned a century of Irish socialist and republican struggle The death has taken place (last night, Saturday 24th March) of May MacGiolla, long time Workers’ Party member and widow of the late Party President, Dublin West TD and Lord Mayor of Dublin Tomás MacGiolla. May MacGiolla (née McLoughlin) was born in Dublin’s [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:12+00:00March 25th, 2018|

Metro North cannot come at disadvantage of local communities

The Workers’ Party have issued a call for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to begin an immediate, independently-facilitated and transparent consultation with Na Fianna GAA club, in the wake of TII’s announcement that it intends to temporarily acquire all three of Na Fianna’s playing pitches to facilitate the building of Metro North / Metro-Link. Workers’ Party [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:13+00:00March 23rd, 2018|

High-rise training and equipment for fire officers urgently needed in wake of Ballymun Metro fire

A Workers’ Party representative and firefighter has called for urgent training for firefighters in the wake of last night’s (Wednesday) fire at the Metro Hotel in Ballymun. David Gardiner, who is the Workers’ Party representative for Lucan-Palmerstown, and a firefighter with Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB), said: “Thanks to the work of my colleagues in DFB, [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:13+00:00March 22nd, 2018|

Liverpool decision on Irish foetal abnormality patients exposes hypocrisy of 8th amendment

100 Meath women travelled to UK for abortions in 2016 alone Workers' Party representative for Meath, Séamus McDonagh, has said that the decision by Liverpool Hospital Trust to deprioritise Irish patients seeking to terminate pregnancies which the baby cannot survive when born, shows the hypocrisy of the 8th amendment. McDonagh, who is also a member [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:13+00:00March 19th, 2018|

Workers’ Party TCD endorses escalation of action by ‘Take Back Trinity’ campaign 

The Workers' Party society based in Trinity College Dublin have endorsed plans to escalate action by the 'Take Back Trinity' campaign against new repeat examination fees, and other fee increases.  Secretary of the Workers' Party TCD, Josh Brady, said: "The people running Trinity know there's money to be made on this campus - from tourists, [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:13+00:00March 13th, 2018|

Joint Call of Communist Youth Organizations for the Day of Common Action and of Solidarity towards the Palestinian People

We denounce to the young people, to the peoples of the entire world, the ongoing crime of US-NATO-Israel against the Palestinian people. The US decision to declare Jerusalem as "the capital of Israel" and to relocate there their embassy from Tel Aviv, as well as the EU's unchanging stance, which equates the "perpetrator" with the [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:13+00:00March 12th, 2018|

Workers’ Party calls for full separation of church and state on International Women’s Day

To mark International Women’s Day 2018, the Workers’ Party have issued a call for the commencement of a comprehensive programme of actions to separate the Catholic Church from the Irish state. Cllr. Éilis Ryan, speaking for the Workers’ Party, said: “We celebrate International Women’s Day as we approach a momentous referendum which may finally give [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:13+00:00March 8th, 2018|

Permanent TSB: State should purchase buy-to-let mortgages to expand housing stock

The Workers’ Party has called for the state to purchase the buy-to-let mortgages put on the market by Permanent TSB earlier this week. Workers’ Party councillor Éilis Ryan said: “There is €1.5billion worth of buy-to-let mortgages within the Permanent TSB portfolio put on the market earlier this week. That’s likely to be thousands and thousands [...]

2019-05-19T10:00:15+00:00February 18th, 2018|