Workers’ Party Dublin North West representative Jimmy Dignam has said that the government has failed utterly at tackling the hospital beds crisis and is shell-shocked that the Taoiseach’s 2011 predictions of an end to the crisis have been completely wrong. Mr. Dignam said said no amount of hospital tours or stage-managed photo opportunities by Minister [...]
The Workers’ Party has accused Environment Minister Alan Kelly of cravenly capitulating to property developers in relation to the minimum size of so-called studio apartments in the Dublin region which can now be 27% smaller than the previous maximum size. Dublin Central Workers’ Party councillor Éilis Ryan said that the new regulations amounted to a [...]
Workers' Party of Ireland Head Office: 24a-25 Hill Street, Dublin 1, Ireland To: The Central Committee, Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España 18th December 2015 Dear Comrades, The Workers' Party of Ireland sends warm comradely greetings to the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain and extends its best wishes, solidarity and [...]
Cllr. Éilis Ryan (WP) The Workers’ Party this evening expressed disappointment at Sinn Féin’s refusal to rule out supporting the sale of public housing in the future. Speaking after a special meeting of Dublin City Council this evening, called to discuss a Sinn Féin motion on the matter, Workers’ Party Cllr. Éilis Ryan [...]
The Workers' Party extends its full solidarity with all INMO members and emergency department workers who are taking strike action tomorrow (Tuesday 15th October). Jimmy Dignam, Dublin North-West representative, stated: “I will be present at tomorrow's picket line at Beaumont hospital to show my full solidarity with the striking emergency department workers. The fact that [...]
Jimmy Dignam, WP candidate Dublin Nth West Workers’ Party spokesperson Jimmy Dignam has said that the reported spurt in economic growth making headlines across the state today is just an illusion for the great majority of working class people who have experienced little or no recovery while many more have seen their personal [...]
Seamus McDonagh (WP) Workers Party Meath East representative Seamus McDonagh has said that Labour Party leader Joan Burton’s attempts to portray differences with Fine Gael in the run up to the general election will cut no ice with voters who have seen the two government parties cemented to one another like limpets over [...]
Lorraine Hennessy Lorraine Hennessy, Workers’ Party representative for Dublin Mid-West has slammed Minister for Health, Mr. Leo Varadkar, as being hypocritical in his penalising of hospitals for patients on trolleys. The number of patients on trolleys is a national disgrace and robs people of a basic entitlement - the right to human dignity. [...]
The Workers Party has welcomed this morning’s High Court Ruling that abortion legislation in Northern Ireland is in breach of human rights law but has expressed regret that this decision had to come through the courts rather than via the Assembly. “As a society we must support a woman’s right to choose and recognise that [...]
Workers’ Party Statement on Syria, the UNSC resolution and the calls for further intervention The internal frictions in Syrian society manipulated by the imperialist powers intent upon foreign intervention have created a situation which now poses a major threat not only to Syria, but also the entire region and the world. The arming of [...]