Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that the state should compulsorily buy back the Whitegate Refinery in Cork Harbour which was sold to the US mulitnational oil company Conoco Philips in 2002 for just €100m in a deal which included the Whiddy Island storage facility and a Dublin office block. Cllr. Tynan said that [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that the shocking levels of fuel poverty revealed in the Unite union study published today exposes the true misery of Christmas for a huge number of families in Cork and across the state. Cllr. Tynan said that the Unite report had utterly destroyed [...]
Cllr. Ted Tynan Cork Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has called on garda Chief Superintendent Michael Finn to stand down the newly established water protest unit established in the city this week. Cllr. Tynan, who is a member of the Cork City Council Policing Forum has said he will be raising the matter at [...]
Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has described that the government capital spending plan, which is to be launched today, as a “large brown envelope with a hole at both ends” Cllr. Tynan said that the contents of the plan had already been substantially and strategically leaked in advance and almost all of the proposed spending, [...]
Cork Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that the proposed merger of Cork City and County Councils would be a disaster for the city and would not be positive for the county either. Cllr. Tynan said that proposed merger made no sense from either a social, urban development, or good governance perspective. He said [...]
Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has called on the government to admit that it has been roundly defeated by the overwhelming force of public opinion on the water charges issue. Cllr. Tynan said that the government was only abandoning the jailing of water charge protestors because the strategy was completely unworkable and could have involved [...]
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 [...]