Repeal mural tackled by Charities Regulator but Catholic Church ignored despite charitable status The Workers' Party have accused the Charities' Regulator of double standards for failing to tackle the Catholic Church's campaigning on the upcoming referendum on the 8th amendment. The accusations come in the wake of a decision by the Charities' Regulator that the [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party have called on the Minister for Finance to instruct NAMA to sack the receiver appointed to a number of portfolios, including the land bank at the former the Irish Glass Bottle site. The calls comes following the receiver’s decision to renege on an agreement reached with Dublin [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan The government received advice from senior officials in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) in March 2017 that raising its defense expenditure to 2%, as required under the EU’s PESCO military pact, would be a significant financial risk to the state. This is according to documents obtained by [...]
Gavin Mendel-Gleason The Workers’ Party have condemned air strikes carried out by United States, French and British forces on Syria Friday night, saying they will only strengthen the hand of jihadi extremists who control territory inside Syria’s borders. Speaking on the matter, Workers’ Party representative Gavin Mendel-Gleason said: “Friday night’s attacks will doubtless [...]
The Workers’ Party has said that the scale of voluntary redundancies announced today (Thursday) by Eir, are further proof of the failure of privatisation in the telecoms sector. Commenting on today’s announcement, Workers’ Party Cllr. Éilis Ryan said: “The redundancies at Eir are just further proof that privatisation of Telecom Éireann was only ever [...]
The Workers’ Party’s representative in Meath, Séamus McDonagh, has this morning welcomed the launch of Together for Yes in Meath, which officially took place last night (Wednesday) in the Newgrange Hotel in Navan. McDonagh, who chaired last night’s launch, said: “Last night was a momentous occasion. It brought together groups from Kells, Navan, Trim, Athboy [...]
The Workers’ Party has called for an immediate closure of the facilities at Shannon Airport to the US military as it prepares to attack Syria in support of Islamic terrorist groups in the war-torn country. Workers’ Party Cllr. Éilis Ryan said: “It seems increasingly certain that a number countries, led by a belligerent Donald Trump [...]
The Workers’ Party of Ireland stands in solidarity with democratic, progressive and revolutionary forces and workers’ organisations in Brazil protesting against the order for the arrest of former President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva and in defence of their rights against the onslaught unleashed by imperialism and the Brazilian capitalist class. The seriousness of the [...]
Free Palestine Thousands of Palestinians have been protesting along the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip as part of the Great March of Return movement. The grotesque, disproportionate and lethal response of the Israeli state has gone unpunished. Israeli forces fired live ammunition at protesters, killed dozens of Palestinians during the past week, including 21 [...]
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 [...]