Campaigns & Issues- Page 11

Limerick: Save ‘Boro Park’ – defend community shared spaces

Fight for permanent public housing for all Well over 150 people showed up to Our Lady Queen of Peace School in Janesboro last Wednesday evening for a meeting with the Mayor of Limerick, John Moran, who has proposed a plan to install

Mar 30, 2026

Anti-Water Charges

Gormley’s announcement a ‘cloak’ to justify double taxation water charges

"Minister Gormley's annoucement that the funding necessary to improve the water infrastructure will amount to €1.8 billion comes as no surprise given the legacy of neglect and the absence of water conservation as well as rain and grey water harvesting measures advocated

Apr 20, 2010

Equality

Communities must unite against racism

Easter Monday night’s vigil in Tyrrelstown, west Dublin, for the slain 15 year old Nigerian lad, Toyosi Shitta-bey, was as uplifting as it was desperately sad. The attendance of about 1,500 braved the unseasonal, biting cold to pay their tributes and make

Apr 8, 2010

Equality

Bigots Benediction – Pope attacks equality laws

The accepted invitation to visit Britain in September 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI has afforded the Vatican a major platform to promote their reactionary and bigoted ideology.

Feb 22, 2010

Anti-Water Charges

Successful Anti-Water Charges Forum

Over 100 people packed into the Teachers’ Club in Dublin, last Saturday, to attend an anti-water charges forum convened by Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin.

Feb 16, 2010

Health

The health crisis hasn’t gone away

New "trolley watch” figures released by the Irish Nurses & Midwives Organisation (INMO) show that on 20 January, over 500 patients had the "luxury" of occupying a hospital trolley, breaking the previous record of 495 reached in 2006.

Feb 16, 2010

Equality

Clerical abuse – prosecutions needed

FOUR CATHOLIC Bishops have resigned in the wake of the Murphy Report into clerical sex abuse of children and the cover up of that abuse in the Dublin Diocese.

Feb 2, 2010

Anti-Water Charges

Water charges on the way back Boycott the Meter – Boycott the Charge!

THANKS TO the Green Party and Fianna Fail’s continued attempts to make ordinary workers pay for the economic crisis, domestic water charges are on the way back for householders, 15 years after they were abolished.

Jan 26, 2010

Health

One billion cuts plan for health service

"HEALTH CUTS hurt the old, the sick and the handicapped" was the cynical slogan used by Fianna Fáil in the 1980s to get re-elected. On doing so in 1987 they went on a rampage of devastation in the health service. They are

Oct 17, 2009

Anti-Water Charges

Press Statement: Water Charges Will Spark A Water War

Green Party/Fianna Fail pledge to reintroduce water charges will spark a water war. Massive boycott will erupt – again. Monumental hypocrisy in talking about reducing water waste in view of utter inaction of last 15 years.

Oct 16, 2009

Anti-Water Charges

Water Charges will be met with mass opposition

There are widespread media reports today that the government will attempt to impose water charges on households in the report of the Commission on Taxation. The Socialist Party is issuing a strong warning to the government that any attempt to re-introduce water

Aug 19, 2009

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