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Ruth Coppinger leaflet: The fight for Disability Justice & the Care Crisis

Public Zoom meeting hosted by Ruth Coppinger: 7.30pm Tuesday 9th April Speakers: Ruth Coppinger, secondary teacher & campaigner; Mick Barry, Socialist Party TD;Speaker from Neuro Pride Ireland;Stephen Morrison, carer & member Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Paediatric Advocacy Group;& more. Ireland – the worst country in

Apr 5, 2024

Joe Higgins column·Special Features

What the GSOC controversy exposed

The political and media rumpus created over issues relating to the Garda force has abated for the time being as the main issues have been kicked to various investigations. There were so many different strands in play that it was sometimes difficult

Mar 10, 2014

Paul Murphy Column

Government’s strategy on bank debt is in tatters and will not deliver

Troika report being cynically used by pro austerity MEPs to give false hope of a retrospective bank deal.

Feb 25, 2014

Economy·News & Analysis·Paul Murphy Column

The Youth Guarantee is an escalation of the government’s war on young people

The government’s real response to unemployment is two-pronged: forced emigration and using mass unemployment to try to drive down wages and conditions.

Feb 8, 2014

Paul Murphy Column

Occupational pensions crisis – capitalist failure to guarantee a future for retired workers

In recent and current industrial battles the crisis in pension funds has been centre stage. Between the nine commercial semi state companies in Ireland there is a deficit in the schemes totalling €3 billion, half of which is concentrated in one company

Feb 6, 2014

Paul Murphy Column

Advance Pitstop Seeks to Save at Least €377,000 in Unpaid Wages Through JobBridge

Advance Pitstop have today advertised on JobBridge for 28 interns to work as ‘sales fitters’ in their branches across the country. These are 28 jobs which could be filled by any one of the hundreds of thousands of people on the dole

Jan 15, 2014

Joe Higgins column

A socialist voice joins Seattle City Council

Who would have imagined that in a major American city, at a post election inauguration ceremony attended by 1,000 people, a new, directly elected Mayor and other members of the City Council would be completely eclipsed by the response of the attendance

Jan 15, 2014

Latest·Paul Murphy Column

Minister’s ignorant comments on Qatar stadiums shows he regards dead migrant workers as ‘non people’

The approach on Middle East trade mission puts Ireland’s trade policy firmly in the camp the fundamentalist free trade hawks.

Jan 9, 2014

Paul Murphy Column

MEP writes to Taoiseach about Human Rights in Saudi Arabia & Qatar

Socialist Party MEP has written to Taoiseach Enda Kenny about his incredible praise for brutal dictatorships in his trade mission to the Middle East. The full text of the letter, which sets out some of the reality of workers', women's and human

Jan 8, 2014

Paul Murphy Column

Taoiseach puts profits for big business ahead of human rights on tour of Gulf dictatorships

Commenting on the Taoiseach’s tour of the Gulf States, Paul Murphy MEP commented: “I find the comments from Enda Kenny, who welcomed Saudi Arabia’s election to the United Nation’s human rights council to be an utter disgrace. The regime is using its

Jan 7, 2014

Economy·Featured Articles·Paul Murphy Column

This “Ireland as a success story” rhetoric is based on empty spin

In 1984, George Orwell gave us a perfect description of the rhetoric of the Irish government, the European Commission and their hangers-on when promoting Ireland’s bailout exit. He defined doublethink: “To tell deliberate lies, while genuinely believing in them, to forget any

Dec 16, 2013

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