Speaking at a May Day meeting last night Workers’ Party president Michael Donnelly stated that Ireland is within three weeks of enshrining the concept that civil marriage as a civil right within our constitution. He said that this would be one of the most significant constitutional changes since the adoption of Bunreacht na hÉireann. [...]
The following is the Party Political Broadcast of the Workers' Party for the forthcoming Westminster elections which will be held on May 7th The Party’s candidates are: Hugh Scullion Mid Ulster: Damien Harte Upper Bann Lily Kerr Belfast South: John Lowry Belfast West: Gemma Weir Belfast North. In a joint statement the [...]
The Workers’ Party Central Executive Committee has welcomed the publication, by the government, of the wording for the forthcoming referendum on Marriage Equality and promised to campaign vigorously for a Yes vote. Michael Donnelly, president of the Workers’ Party stated: “This referendum is long overdue. It peels back one further layer of repression from [...]
Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has called on the government to re-nationalise the Whitegate Refinery in the national interest and to ensure Ireland retains the ability to refine oil products and keep a strategic reserve in case of future oil shortages which could become a reality in the event of growing threats of war [...]
The Workers' Party has condemned the attack on the North Belfast constituency office of the SDLP which was discovered on Saturday morning (February 14th). North Belfast WP representative Gemma Weir said, "The overnight attack on the Antrim Road offices of the SDLP is disgraceful and cowardly and is designed to intimidate all those engaged in [...]
The need to place the wholesale reform of the policing service on top of the political agenda is clear from ongoing campaign of arrests targeting political activists and the working class community of Jobstown, according to Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor Éilis Ryan. “In recent days what has been witnessed is not only clearly policing driven by [...]
Michael Donnelly The Workers’ Party have condemned the arrest this morning of Socialist Party TD Paul Murphy and three other people for their alleged role in a protest against Tánaiste Joan Burton at Jobstown in West Dublin last November. Workers’ Party President Michael Donnelly said that the arrest of the four was not [...]
Workers’ Party Dublin councillor Éilis Ryan has condemned the intimidation of water protesters by private security firms working for Irish Water and has said the failure of the company and its agents to respond to queries and complaints from local representatives was completely unacceptable Councillor Ryan, who represents the North Inner City Ward, submitted [...]
The Workers Party has described the Stormont House Agreement as a bad deal for workers and the formal and most public indication to date of the adoption of Tory economic principles and policies by the DUP/Sinn Féin led administration in Northern Ireland. At the January meeting of the Party's Central Executive Committee the Party [...]