The Socialist Party regularly get heartbreaking calls from people waiting years on the Council’s housing list. The wait is particularly desperate for anyone on the 2-bed list as none are being built in Dublin 15 by the Council.
5 May 2009 Socialist Party councillor Mick Barry responded to today’s IRISH INDEPENDENT story on child benefit cuts by saying: “Child benefit should not be means-tested, should not be taxed and should not be cut”. He said that a 10 percent flat
Councillor Mick Murphy opposed a motion to apply for “rejuvenation status” for Tallaght Town Centre at Mondays Tallaght Area Committee meeting and slammed the move as an attempt to distract from the disaster that is Tallaght Town Centre in the run in
Creation of Reserve Army of Very Cheap Labour the Aim The paper Activation Policies in Ireland presented by the OECD to today 's ESRI Conference in Dublin strongly implies that benefits should be cut for the unemployed. The thrust of the paper
PUBLIC MEETING APRIL 30th 8pmBoys National School, Brookstone Road. DERELICTION: DUMPING : DRUGS ABANDONED COUNCIL DEPOTA SERIOUS PROBLEM over the past 10 months the abandoned council depot at Seagrange Park has become more derelict, has experience increasing fly tipping and has now
At 5pm on the 22nd of April, shouting 'Not a rupee, not a bullet, to the Rajapaska government', protesters gathered in front of the Indian Embassy at a picket called by the 'Stop the Slaughter of Tamils' campaign.
AGAINST THE background of the developing crisis in the Irish economy, the Labour Party continues to posture as a party that fights in the interests of working people. At its recent national Conference, Party Leader Eamon Gilmore several times referred to "crony
By Gary Mulcahy THE AFTERMATH of the recent killings of two soldiers at Massereene barracks in Antrim and of a PSNI officer in Lurgan in March has demonstrated the fragility of the peace process. In recent years, the various dissident republican groups