May MacGiolla’s lifetime spanned a century of Irish socialist and republican struggle The death has taken place (last night, Saturday 24th March) of May MacGiolla, long time Workers’ Party member and widow of the late Party President, Dublin West TD and Lord Mayor of Dublin Tomás MacGiolla. May MacGiolla (née McLoughlin) was born in Dublin’s [...]
The Workers’ Party have issued a call for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to begin an immediate, independently-facilitated and transparent consultation with Na Fianna GAA club, in the wake of TII’s announcement that it intends to temporarily acquire all three of Na Fianna’s playing pitches to facilitate the building of Metro North / Metro-Link. Workers’ Party [...]
A Workers’ Party representative and firefighter has called for urgent training for firefighters in the wake of last night’s (Wednesday) fire at the Metro Hotel in Ballymun. David Gardiner, who is the Workers’ Party representative for Lucan-Palmerstown, and a firefighter with Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB), said: “Thanks to the work of my colleagues in DFB, [...]
100 Meath women travelled to UK for abortions in 2016 alone Workers' Party representative for Meath, Séamus McDonagh, has said that the decision by Liverpool Hospital Trust to deprioritise Irish patients seeking to terminate pregnancies which the baby cannot survive when born, shows the hypocrisy of the 8th amendment. McDonagh, who is also a member [...]
The Workers' Party society based in Trinity College Dublin have endorsed plans to escalate action by the 'Take Back Trinity' campaign against new repeat examination fees, and other fee increases. Secretary of the Workers' Party TCD, Josh Brady, said: "The people running Trinity know there's money to be made on this campus - from tourists, [...]
We denounce to the young people, to the peoples of the entire world, the ongoing crime of US-NATO-Israel against the Palestinian people. The US decision to declare Jerusalem as "the capital of Israel" and to relocate there their embassy from Tel Aviv, as well as the EU's unchanging stance, which equates the "perpetrator" with the [...]
To mark International Women’s Day 2018, the Workers’ Party have issued a call for the commencement of a comprehensive programme of actions to separate the Catholic Church from the Irish state. Cllr. Éilis Ryan, speaking for the Workers’ Party, said: “We celebrate International Women’s Day as we approach a momentous referendum which may finally give [...]
The Workers’ Party has called for the state to purchase the buy-to-let mortgages put on the market by Permanent TSB earlier this week. Workers’ Party councillor Éilis Ryan said: “There is €1.5billion worth of buy-to-let mortgages within the Permanent TSB portfolio put on the market earlier this week. That’s likely to be thousands and thousands [...]
The Workers’ Party have condemned Friday’s confirmation from the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (CRU) that excess water charges are to be introduced from 2019. Speaking on the matter, Workers’ Party representative Séamus McDonagh said: “We have to assume that this is a way of introducing water charges by the back door, plain and [...]
Lorraine Hennessy The Workers’ Party in Dublin Mid West has expressed deep concern that the currently proposed development of the new suburb of Clonburris will repeat most of the serious errors of the past and will create another incomplete, isolated and broken neighbourhood. Local Workers’ Party representative Lorraine Hennessy said: “The proposal to [...]