The Workers’ Party has called on the Irish Government to bring to an end its close business and political links with a regime in Saudi Arabia which has condemned a young political activist to death by crucifixion and is a systematic extreme abuser of human rights. Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor, Éilis Ryan, said: “Recent [...]
The Workers' Party of Ireland has sent the following message of solidarity to the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) with which we have long-standing fraternal relations. Dear Comrades, The Workers' Party of Ireland sends warm comradely greetings and solidarity to the Communist Party of Greece on the eve of the parliamentary elections in Greece [...]
The Workers’ Party has selected Councillor Ted Tynan as its candidate for Cork North Central in the forthcoming general election. The Mayfield based councillor was chosen by the Workers’ Party membership in North Central at a meeting in the constituency yesterday. Cllr. Tynan has represented the party on Cork City Council since 2009 and more [...]
The Workers’ Party has condemned the possibility of a company owned by controversial businessman Denis O’Brien being given a contract to provide temporary housing units for homeless families in Dublin. Following a viewing of the modular housing units, Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor, Éilis Ryan, said that the proposal to use them as a stop-gap [...]
Workers’ Party representative for Dublin North-West, Jimmy Dignam, has described the legal charges brought against water activists as an “outrage and an affront to democracy”. He commented, “these proceedings are designed to intimidate people into both paying water charges and to dissuade the water movement from exercising its democratic right to protest”. “The arrests and [...]
The Workers’ Party have called for a national housing strategy on a permanent basis to ensure that never again will the citizens of this country have to face the type of housing emergency currently impacting on hundreds of thousands of people. Workers’ Party Meath spokesman Seamus McDonagh said that the current housing crisis was putting [...]
Workers' Party Dublin-North West representative Jimmy Dignam has slammed the uncertainty over the future of the North-West Childcare Resource Centre and the Ballymun Young Women’s Project, as a double-blow for women living in Ballymun and the wider north-west Dublin area. Dignam called on the City of Dublin Youth Service Board (CDYSB) to move immediately [...]
Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that the proposed merger of Cork City and County Councils would be a disaster for the city and would not be positive for the county either. Cllr. Tynan said that proposed merger made no sense from either a social, urban development, or good governance perspective. He said [...]
The Workers’ Party has called for Ireland to assist refugees with shelter and demand the ending of NATO interventions in Syria, Libya and Iraq which have provoked the current crisis. Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor Éilis Ryan said; “The suffering of those forced to seek refuge in Europe due to the destruction of their [...]
Up to 100,000 from every corner of Ireland marched through the streets of Dublin yesterday (29 August) to express their anger at the government over the imposition of water charges and the privatisation agenda. Irish people already pay for their water and through taxes and there has been a huge campaign against the new [...]