The Workers’ Party have said that reports in yesterday’s Sunday Business Post (19/11/17) that emergency departments will be closed in three Dublin hospitals and several others including Cavan, Naas and Portlaoise are completely out of touch with reality. Workers’ Party Meath representative Seamus McDonagh said the report was most alarming and if implemented would inevitably [...]
70 Cork apartment tenants face eviction as result of landlord "renovations" loophole The Workers’ Party has called on the government to put an emergency bill through the Oireachtas to urgently close a loophole which allows landlords to evict tenants where major renovations are being carried out in a rented home. Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan [...]
Seamus McDonagh The Workers’ Party has said that under no circumstances should Ireland become a member or associate of the new Permanent Structured Defence Cooperation body (PESCO). Seamus McDonagh, the Workers’ Party’s Meath representative, said that PESCO represented a further step along the road to a full-blown EU army and defence structure in [...]
Cork city councillor Ted Tynan (Workers’ Party) has condemned Sinn Féin’s decision to back the council’s annual budget last week (Thursday, November 9th). Speaking in reaction to the budget, Cllr. Tynan said: “I voted against the budget for the same reason Sinn Féin said they had voted against the budget in the past - It [...]
Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has criticised plans to increase the speed limit on the North Ring Road from the existing 50 kilometre per hour maximum to 60kph. Cllr. Tynan said the North Ring Road was not a proper ring road and had been constructed in the 1980s as a compromise route due to the [...]
Dublin City Councillor Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City) has this morning (Friday, 3rd November) called for City Council CEO Owen Keegan to resign, in the wake of last night’s Prime Time Investigates documentary on standards in the private rental sector. Commenting on the situation, the Workers’ Party councillor said: “There is absolute clarity [...]
19th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, St Petersburg 2-3 November 2017 “The 100th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution: The Ideals of the Communist Movement, Revitalising the Struggle against imperialist wars, for peace, socialism.” Comrades, The Workers Party of Ireland is honoured to be present in Russia on this historic [...]
The Workers’ Party have stated that apartment build estimates released today (Tuesday) by the Society of Chartered Surveyors in Ireland (SCSI) are more than double the cost of the state building apartments on its own land. Reacting to the figures released by the SCSI, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party), said: “It is astounding that, in [...]
The Workers’ Party have said that Minister for Education Richard Bruton’s proposal to encourage ‘homemakers’ to retrain as secondary school teachers wilfully ignores the obvious causes why young people might not choose teaching as a career. Speaking following the Minister’s comments today (Friday) at the annual conference of the National Association of Principals and Deputy [...]
The Workers’ Party have called on the government to introduce a mandatory public pension scheme, similar to recommendations made earlier this summer by the Citizens’ Assembly, in response to the Speaking on the matter, Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City Dublin) said: “The utter discrimination imposed on women both by 2012 pension changes, [...]