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Management fees limbo must be ended

May 29, 2009
Thousands of residents in Ongar, Latchford, Tyrrelstown and elsewhere remain locked into contracts with private management companies and are increasingly falling into arrears as the recession bites. Such residents should use the local elections to pass judgement on the parties who stood
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Child abuse – Irelands’ gulags

May 29, 2009
By Joe HigginsMary Raftery’s documentary, States of Fear, which gave rise to the Child Abuse Commission was first broadcast just over ten years ago, on Tuesday night, 27th April 1999. It was a shocking story, powerfully told but what happened the next
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Rent allowance slashed

May 29, 2009
Socialist Party candidate for the North East ward Dave Keating this morning slammed HSE boss Brendan Drumm’s €500,000+ wage cheque and said that it was an insult in the week that tens of thousands of rent allowance recipients received correspondence from the
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SR Technics leaving factory

Capitalism in crisis!

May 26, 2009
By Stephen Boyd SOME POLITICAL and social commentators have begun to bemoan the continual stream of bad economic news. However for the working class and the middle class in Ireland and around the world the impact of the bad economic reality is
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No to privatisation of the ESB

May 25, 2009
No to privatisation of the ESB By Dave KeatingGeorge Lee wants to sell off Bord Gais and the lucrative parts of the ESB, supposedly to fund a jobs creation programme. The irony is that in order to sell the ESB, Fine Gael
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Minimum wage cut?

May 17, 2009
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
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Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden

Divide & Rule: Labour & the Partition of Ireland