Cllr. Éilis Ryan Taoiseach prioritises broadband for pubs and cuts to duty on bar licences while housing crisis mounts The Workers’ Party today reacted with disbelief to Fine Gael’s manifesto which – in an apparent nod to the vintners’ lobby – promises to deliver high-speed broadband to public houses around the country and [...]
Workers Party President Mick Donnelly (Back) with candidates (L-R) Cllr. Ted Tynan, Jimmy Dignam, Seamus McDonagh, Cllr. Éilis Ryan and Lorraine Hennessy A resurgent Workers’ Party is running five candidates in the forthcoming General Election, and today said that it expects to be in the hunt for the final seat in Cork North [...]
Councillor Éilis Ryan, the Workers’ Party candidate for Dublin Central has said that if Ireland signs the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) the manifesto commitments of all political parties on a wide range of issues would be rendered meaningless. Cllr. Ryan said the Irish people and the citizens of the EU as a whole [...]
In response to increasing expectations among financial analysts and journalists of an impending stock market crash, Jimmy Dignam, the Workers’ Party candidate for Dublin North West has said that Ireland’s banking system is an unreformed Frankenstein’s monster that could cause a repeat of the economic catastrophe of 2008 / 2009. Jimmy Dignam Dignam [...]
Warning comes amid fears that Greyhound may withdraw from North Inner City Time to bring bin services back under public control, says WP Dublin Central candidate Dublin Central Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan today (Thursday 11 February) warned that large swathes of the capital’s Inner City may be left out in what she termed “the [...]
Dublin Mid-West Workers’ Party candidate Lorraine Hennessy has launched the party’s childcare proposals which envisage the transfer of childcare provision from the private sector to local government. Lorraine Hennessy Clondalkin based Ms. Hennessy said that childcare must be fully funded by the state, free and universally available to all parents including those who [...]
Dublin Central candidate calls for ‘safety zone’ around clinics to protect women from abuse Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan today (Sunday February 7th) responded angrily to reports that a family planning clinic – Reproductive Choices on Berkeley Street in Dublin 7 – is to be targeted by anti-choice protestors from next Wednesday. Cllr Ryan was [...]
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 Workers’ Party has called on communities to unite in support of an anti-racism rally in Dublin tomorrow which has been called to show the city’s opposition to an attempt by a hate group styling itself as ‘Pegida Ireland’ to hold a demonstration outside the GPO. Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor and Dublin Central general [...]
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 [...]