Cork Northwest Workers’ Party representative Catherine Coffey has welcomed the decision of Bórd Pleanála to refuse planning permission for a new waste facility at Churchfield. Ms. Coffey said that the rejection of planning at the site was a clear recognition that the site was not suitable for a waste facility and she felt that if [...]
A new candidate has been chosen by the Workers’ Party to contest the extended Cork City North West ward in May’s local elections. Catherine Coffey Catherine Coffey , a high profile volunteer worker and community activist, was selected by the party at a convention in the constituency last week. Following her selection Catherine [...]
Dear Comrades, The Workers Party of Ireland sends comradely greetings and best wishes for 2019 to communist and workers’ parties throughout the world. Capitalism continues to condemn millions to poverty, unemployment, homelessness, inequality, oppression, exploitation, hunger and disease. Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism, with its specific features, including the concentration of production into monopolies [...]
The Workers’ Party has called for major NAMA owned land banks suitable for housing to be given to local authorities along with funding for the construction of public housing. Cllr. Ted Tynan (WP) Workers’ Party Cork City Councillor, Ted Tynan, said that the sale of 43 acres of prime housing land near Douglas [...]
To all Party members, supporters and friends. As the old year closes and a new one dawns it is time to reflect upon what the old represented and the new might hold. Michael Donnelly, President of the Workers' Party It was a year that held no great cheer for the hundreds of thousands [...]
The Workers’ Party in Cork have condemned the latest government funding pledge to the proposed Cork Events Centre, saying the project had become a bottomless pit for public funds in the midst of a housing crisis. Local Workers’ Party councillor, Ted Tynan, said that the with state and local authority funding pledges now nearing €40 [...]
"It is with deep sadness and regret that the Workers Party announces the death of Sean Garland, a life-long comrade, a member of the Party's Central Executive Committee and one of the people who most influenced and shaped the Workers Party over many decades. Sean Garland (1934-2018) Party President Michael Donnelly has paid [...]
The Workers’ Party has called for urgent government intervention to prevent the closure of An Post’s Cork Mail Centre at Little Island which has reportedly been earmarked for closure with the loss of up to 200 jobs. Cllr. Ted Tynan (WP) Workers’ Party Cork City councillor Ted Tynan said the closure of the [...]
Case for semi-state ESB to take over broadband rollout now unanswerable Seamus McDonagh The Workers’ Party has said that the latest revelations concerning the contacts between former Communications Minister Denis Naughten and US businessman David McCourt show that the so-called “new politics” ushered in by the Fianna Fail / Fine Gael “Confidence [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan of the Workers’ Party has deplored the decision by the National Transport Authority (NTA) to privatise yet more routes operated by Bus Éireann and said that instead the NTA itself should be abolished. Cllr. Tynan said that since its inception the NTA had shown that it was only interested in pursuing an [...]