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Minimum wage cut?

By Laura Fitzgerald EVERYONE KNOWS the minimum wage is paltry and it’s not enough to live on. Many young people up to the age of 20 have an even lower minimum wage, as miserable as €6.06 per hour for some. Yet each
May 17, 2009

Housing crisis

By Councillor Clare Daly  TWO YEARS ago, Anne her partner and her two children owned their own house and ran a small business. As the loan for the business was tied in with their house, when the business ran into trouble they
May 17, 2009

Post election: They’re bringing in fees!

By Conor Payne, UL Socialist Youth AFTER INITIALLY saying it would announce its plans in relation to college fees in April, the government has delayed the decision. The hated Fianna Fail and Green government want to minimise the amount of “bad news”
May 17, 2009

Interview with Student Teacher

SY – What are your job prospects like? Maria - I am not at all confident about getting a job in the current climate. Having spent three years studying it looks as if it is for nothing. I have applied for advertised
May 17, 2009

Education cuts: Damaging our children’s future

By Councillor Ruth Coppinger PARENTS VOTING on 5 June need to factor in a huge issue that will impact their children’s future but is being largely ignored in the media. When their kids return to school in September, two to three teachers will
May 17, 2009

Interview on Budget cuts

Fiona O’Loughlin spoke to Tracey who lives in Clondalkin with her 18 month old son. Fiona: How have the cutbacks in recent budgets affected you and your family? Tracey: “I am single parent and I work part-time two days a week. My
May 17, 2009

Joe Higgins: Why I’m Standing for Euro Election

THE REASON I am standing in the Euro Elections in Dublin is to give the people of the capital city the possibility of a clear socialist alternative to all the establishment political parties. There is no doubt that the current economic catastrophe will
May 16, 2009

Child Benefit Cuts

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
May 5, 2009
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