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 our [...]
The Workers’ Party has called on the government to block any sale of Aer Lingus and to use its strategic 25% share to ensure that the airline continues to provide vital connectivity between this country and the rest of the world. Dublin Workers’ Party councillor, Éilis Ryan, said that Aer Lingus was of vital strategic [...]
The Workers’ Party has a representative on Dublin City Council for the first time since 1999 with the announcement today (Wednesday, 21st January) that north inner city councillor, Éilis Ryan, has joined the organisation. Announcing her decision to join the Workers’ Party, Éilis Ryan, said: “The Workers’ Party has a proud history of standing [...]
The President of the Workers’ Party, Michael Donnelly, has said there is a judicial bias against working class people when it comes to the penalties for fraud and other financial wrongdoings. Mr. Donnelly said that the five year prison sentence handed down to a man convicted of social welfare fraud was in stark contrast [...]
Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that he is not surprised by the findings of a new ESRI report on the effects of government budgetary policy over the past six years which showed a 13% drop in income for the least well off. Cllr. Tynan said that the report demolished Tánaiste Joan Burton’s [...]