Workers Party Councillor Ted Tynan has expressed concern about repeated breakdowns of radiotherapy machines at Cork University Hospital. Although replacement machines have long been promised the older machines are still being used and breakdowns are a regular occurrence. In November 2013 Cllr. Tynan raised the issue at a meeting of the HSE South Forum where [...]
The Workers’ Party of Ireland condemns the recent banning by the regime in Kiev of the Communist Party of Ukraine, the culmination of a systematic attack on the Communist Party, its rights, its facilities, and its members. The Communist Party of Ukraine won more than two and a half million votes at the 2012 election, [...]
Gaza has a population of 1.8 million, almost half of whom are children under the age of 14. Since 2006 Israel has killed well over 3,000 Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza alone. The current barbaric Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza misnamed “Operation Protective Edge” continues and escalates. Already this operation [...]
Proceedings at the Workers Party annual commemoration of Theobald Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown, Co. Kildare held on Sunday, 29th June 2014 including the opening remarks of chairwoman Gemma Weir of the North Belfast branch of the Workers’ Party and the main address by Michael Donnelly, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers’ Party of Ireland. […]
Contribution by the Workers Party of Ireland to the 23rd International Communist Seminar, Brussels, June 2014. Address by Gerry Grainger, Chair, International Affairs Committee, the Workers Party of Ireland. […]
Cork City North West Workers’ Party candidate James Coughlan has called for a realistic jobs strategy for the Northside of the city based on strategic planning and direct job creation by state agencies and local authorities. Mr. Coughlan said that as an immediate priority hundreds of building workers could be put to work if the [...]
The President of the Workers’ Party, Michael Finnegan, has said that the resignation of Minister Alan Shatter does not, as the government may hope, draw a line in the sand in relation to public concerns regarding the administration of justice in this country. “Alan Shatter was an arrogant Minister in a government which has made [...]
Workers Party local election candidate James Coughlan has said that the so-called free allowance of water to householders is a cruel trick designed to deceive low income families into believing they were going to be protected from hefty water charges. […]
Workers Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that the Revenue Commissioners’ imminent deduction of unpaid Household Charges was nothing less than pure theft from the pay-packets of workers and the welfare payments of honest citizens. Cllr. Tynan said that the circulation of letters of intent to thousands of homes in the last few days had [...]
Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has accused the government of playing a cynical game of rumour and denial as part of a “softening up” exercise to prepare people for much higher water charges than originally stated. Cllr. Tynan said that the issue of whether there would be a standing charge on water bills was [...]