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Pilgrim strike: Support the strike and change the food industry

By Paddy Meehan Food workers at the Enniskillen-based Pilgrim Foods took all-out industrial action on 2 September 2026 to fight for a decent pay rise from a deeply profitable company. Workers took action after weeks of negotiating, and previous industrial action had

Sep 13, 2026

The dire state of trans healthcare in Ireland

By Ollie Bell Despite Ireland winning many gains for the LGBTQ+ community such as Marriage Equality and the Gender Recognition Act in 2015, the fight for LGBTQ+ rights isn’t over. Currently the trans community is facing the ever-growing crisis of the trans

Jun 13, 2022

End the model of state-subsidised, private profit childcare

By Caitríona Ní Chatháin Disgracefully, the Irish State currently spends a pitiful 0.1% of its GDP on childcare. Ireland is also an outlier among wealthier countries because childcare is exclusively private and largely for-profit with state subsidies. In spite of these subsidies

Jun 12, 2022

News & Analysis

Free, reliable and frequent public transport now!

By Conor Burke The government’s recent decision to reduce fares for public transport by 20% was immediately offset by inflation and the rising cost of living. In reality, it was a token measure that falls far short of what should have been

Jun 11, 2022

News & Analysis

Outsourcing threatens 300 jobs at PayPal

By Peter McGregor Over three hundred more jobs at PayPal are now under threat – 135 in Blanchardstown and 172 in Dundalk. These redundancies follow a swathe of job-losses at PayPal in Ireland last year, and continue the trend of many companies

Jun 10, 2022

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Depp / Heard verdict a travesty – socialist feminist movement against gender violence urgently needed

By Steph Lacey & Laura Fitzgerald On 1 June 2022 a jury of five men and two women took away Amber Heard’s right to call herself a victim. Being found guilty of defamation is not the same as lying about domestic violence,

Jun 6, 2022

News & Analysis

CAMHS beds closures: youth mental health services are on their knees

By Catherine Finnegan Almost half of all beds in the Linn Dara, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit in Cherry Orchard are closed due to staff shortages. The HSE has confirmed that 11 of the meagre 23 beds will be closed until

Jun 5, 2022

News & Analysis

Sharpening mental health crisis results in record dropout from third level

By Finn McKenna Human beings are social creatures. The meaning that we derive from life and the world is rooted in our interaction with our friends, our family, our peers, and society generally. As much as a truism and a cliché it

Jun 4, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·What is Socialism?

It’s time to get rid of capitalism – time for socialism

By Manus Lenihan With climate change, war and disease, it’s easy to grow numb to all the bad news stories. But just when you think nothing can shock you, the world finds a way to twist the knife, for example with the

Jun 2, 2022

News & Analysis·Workplace News

Inhuman working hours: Junior doctors ballot for industrial action

By Mick Barry, Socialist Party TD HSE junior doctors are expected to vote by a decisive majority to take industrial action. The inhuman and unrealistic hours they are demanded to work lie at the root of it. According to the Non-Consultant Hospital

Jun 1, 2022

News & Analysis

Thousands march for Irish language: Fight for real language rights for all

By Eóin Dawson and Maitiú de Hál (As Gaeilge) Five years after the historic An Dream Dearg [the Red Crowd] march for Irish language rights, they repeated their Lá Dearg [Red Day] event on 21/05/2022, demanding ‘Cearta, Cothromas agus Cóir’ [Rights, Respect

May 27, 2022

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