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10 September 2025
Onus on Sinn Féin to back Connolly in presidential election
With Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil having confirmed their presidential candidates, the article calls on Sinn Féin to back Catherine Connolly and prevent either government party from taking the Áras.
4 September 2025
Workers’ Party endorses Catherine Connolly for President
Following the August meeting of the Ard Comhairle, the Workers’ Party is endorsing Catherine Connolly in the 2025 presidential election, which is set to take place on Friday, 24th October.
31 July 2025
International Round-Up Summer 2025
A round-up of the Workers’ Party’s international activity with like-minded parties and organisations during the first half of 2025.
26 July 2025
Ongoing policing and crowd management failures major cause of Derry football violence
Knee-jerk responses to violence around Bohemians’ visit to Derry City increase tensions and allow the PSNI and football authorities to avoid responsibility for crowd management failures, according to Garrett Greene.
22 July 2025
Plan to develop Sheriff Street comes at the expense of community and working people
Ballymore’s plans to redevelop Sheriff Street have caused controversy over their possible effects on the working class community, including demolition of homes for offices and student accommodation.
3 July 2025
Rank hypocrisy from politicians on poverty following the death of Brother Kevin Crowley
Garrett Greene, Workers’ Party representative in Dublin Central, has expressed deep sadness at the death yesterday of Brother Kevin Crowley of the Capuchin Day Centre in Dublin’s Bow Street.
30 June 2025
BBC’s Kneecap blackout: a clamp down on freedom of expression and solidarity with Palestine
The BBC’s failure to broadcast Irish-language rap trio Kneecap’s landmark set at Glastonbury sparked outrage. The article argues that the decision silenced a voice for resistance and solidarity.
22 June 2025
U.S. attacks on Iran pose serious threat as the imperialists march towards a Third World War
The Workers’ Party condemns the United States’ bombing of Iran, as well as Israeli attacks on Iran that began earlier this month.
9 June 2025
Israel’s capturing of the Madleen is a vindictive and illegal act in aid of genocide
David Gardiner described Israel’s interception and boarding of the Madleen, and its capture of those aboard the humanitarian aid ship, as vindictive and grossly illegal.
29 May 2025
About 300 people queue, some overnight, for 38 houses at Seven Mills in Clondalkin
Newstalk reported that 300 people queued, some overnight, for 38 houses priced at up to €500,000 in Seven Mills, Clondalkin. David Gardiner said the scenes show that the private market cannot solve the housing crisis.
27 May 2025
KNEECAP terror charges designed to silence those who oppose Zionism, colonialism and genocide
The article describes the terror charge against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, better known as Mo Chara of Kneecap, as a cynical move by the British establishment to silence opposition to Zionism, colonialism and Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
25 May 2025
Elaine Rush oration
On 22 May 2025, friends, family and comrades raised the parting glass in memory of Elaine Rush before Caoimhe Garland delivered an oration on behalf of the organisation.