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Thousands support Right2Water marches

Some of the Workers' Party contingent at the Dublin Right2Water march   Despite continuous incessant rain across Ireland today thousands of people turned out for the latest in a series of Right 2 Water marches in protest against the double taxation of Water Charges and the continued metering programme of Irish Water, the [...]

January 23rd, 2016|0 Comments

Action needed urgently to deal with crisis in health system

Workers' Party Dublin North West candidate Jimmy Dignam has urged the government to start taking the crisis in the health system seriously. Speaking in response to the news that Beaumont Hospital is postponing non-urgent procedures today, Dignam said, "the Government and Minister Varadkar need to stop sitting on their hands pretending the crisis has nothing [...]

January 22nd, 2016|0 Comments

World Economic Forum is undemocratic rich man’s club

The Workers’ Party has described the opening of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzterland as the annual outing of world leaders to receive their orders on how to run the world economy from the economic elite of conglomerates, multinationals and the super-rich. Calling for disestablishment of the forum, Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan said [...]

January 21st, 2016|0 Comments

Govt has ideological aversion to state job creation

Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has accused Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Joan Burton of having an ideologically driven aversion to creating public sector jobs. Workers’ Party Dublin Councillor Éilis Ryan has said that the launch today of another Jobs Initiative was merely a further throwing of massive sums of money at [...]

January 18th, 2016|0 Comments

Workers’ Party calls for a large turnout at Right2Water marches

The Workers’ Party has called for a large turnout at next Saturday’s nationwide Right2Water marches. Party spokesman and Meath East candidate Seamus McDonagh has said a clear message needs to be given to both the government and the opposition parties that the issue of water charges was not going away and would be a major [...]

January 17th, 2016|0 Comments

Coveney more interested in speculators than citizens

Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has described as disgraceful the recent comments of Minister Simon Coveney in relation to the delayed commencement of the Events Centre at the former Beamish & Crawford brewery site in Cork city. Councillor Ted Tynan The Minister had been quoted as blaming the delayed commencement of work on [...]

January 15th, 2016|0 Comments

Dignam welcomes Educate Together Secondary School for Whitehall and Glasnevin

Workers' Party representative for Whitehall and Glasnevin, Jimmy Dignam, has welcomed the news that an Educate Together Secondary School is to open in the area in September. Dignam stated, The announcement by the City of Dublin Education and Training Board and Educate Together that the new school will be co-located in the building currently occupied [...]

January 14th, 2016|0 Comments

Dignam slams hand-over of housing lands at Oscar Traynor Rd Dublin

Jimmy Dignam, the Workers' Party representative for Santry and Beaumont, has slammed the handing-over of council-owned land at Oscar Traynor Road to a private developer. Jimmy Dignam, Workers Party Dublin North West Dignam said, 'There are thousands of working-class families on the council waiting list, living in the north-east and north-west areas of [...]

January 13th, 2016|0 Comments

Ryan condemns Sinn Féin support for sell-off of Dublin City Council lands

                              Cllr. Éilis Ryan  Cllr. Éilis Ryan (Workers’ Party, North Inner City Dublin) has condemned Sinn Féin’s support for the sale of significant tracts of Dublin City Council land to private developers at a meeting of Dublin City Council [...]

January 12th, 2016|0 Comments

€18m centre will only benefit multinational asset-strippers

Seamus McDonagh (WP) Meath East Workers’ Party representative Seamus McDonagh has hit out at Junior Minister Damien English following the announcement that €18 million of taxpayers’ money is being spent on a new Geo-Science research unit at UCD. Mr. McDonagh said that the announcement was a sop to the multi-nationals  such as the [...]

January 8th, 2016|0 Comments