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Waste disposal: Cllr Eilis Ryan warns Inner City areas may be left out in market cold

Warning comes amid fears that Greyhound may withdraw from North Inner City Time to bring bin services back under public control, says WP Dublin Central candidate Dublin Central Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan today (Thursday 11 February) warned that large swathes of the capital’s Inner City may be left out in what she termed “the [...]

February 11th, 2016|0 Comments

WP Cllr Ryan condemns planned picket of Dublin 7 family planning clinic

Dublin Central candidate calls for ‘safety zone’ around clinics to protect women from abuse Workers’ Party Councillor Éilis Ryan today (Sunday February 7th) responded angrily to reports that a family planning clinic – Reproductive Choices on Berkeley Street in Dublin 7 – is to be targeted by anti-choice protestors from next Wednesday.  Cllr Ryan was [...]

February 7th, 2016|0 Comments

Fine Gael’s recovery slogan ringing hollow in Dublin Central says Cllr Ryan

Over 20,000 living in deprivation in Minister Donohoe’s constituency The Workers’ Party candidate in Dublin Central, Cllr Eilis Ryan, today (Sunday) said that Fine Gael’s claims of economic recovery are ringing hollow in Dublin Central, where an estimated 20,000 people are suffering multiple deprivation experiences based on an extrapolation from CSO figures. “Fine Gael’s Minister [...]

February 7th, 2016|0 Comments

Workers Party candidate calls for support for Dublin anti-racism rally tomorrow

The Workers’ Party has called on communities to unite in support of an anti-racism rally in Dublin tomorrow which has been called to show the city’s opposition to an attempt by a hate group styling itself as ‘Pegida Ireland’ to hold a demonstration outside the GPO. Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor and Dublin Central general [...]

February 5th, 2016|0 Comments

WP candidate Ryan says Xtravision workers treated shabbily

Workers Party Dublin Central candidate Cllr. Éilis Ryan has expressed support for the 580 Xtravision workers who have been made redundant and are now fighting for entitlements they were promised would be secured. Cllr. Ryan said that more than four years after the Vita Cortex debacle in Cork in which employees had to sit-in their [...]

January 29th, 2016|0 Comments

Govt has ideological aversion to state job creation

Cllr. Éilis Ryan The Workers’ Party has accused Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Joan Burton of having an ideologically driven aversion to creating public sector jobs. Workers’ Party Dublin Councillor Éilis Ryan has said that the launch today of another Jobs Initiative was merely a further throwing of massive sums of money at [...]

January 18th, 2016|0 Comments

Minister Kelly rolled-over by developers on apartment size

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 [...]

December 22nd, 2015|0 Comments

Ireland must cut links with despotic Saudi regime says Ryan

The Workers’ Party has called on the Irish Government to bring to an end its close business and political links with a regime in Saudi Arabia which has condemned a young political activist to death by crucifixion and is a systematic extreme abuser of human rights. Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor, Éilis Ryan, said: “Recent [...]

September 25th, 2015|0 Comments

WP say O’Brien must not profit from homeless crisis

The Workers’ Party has condemned the possibility of a company owned by controversial businessman Denis O’Brien being given a contract to provide temporary housing units for homeless families in Dublin. Following a viewing of the modular housing units, Workers’ Party Dublin City Councillor, Éilis Ryan, said that the proposal to use them as a stop-gap [...]

September 16th, 2015|0 Comments

Ryan calls for use of NAMA as emergency accommodation for families

Workers Party Dublin City Councillor Éilis Ryan  has called on the government to prioritise the use of NAMA properties as emergency accommodation for homeless families   In a motion to be put before Dublin City Council this evening, Cllr.  Ryan is calling for the government and Dublin City Council to develop a costed plan for the further purchase and/or [...]

April 13th, 2015|0 Comments