It is very clear that the Repeal Referendum on May 25 will be a watershed moment for Irish society. Either we will continue on the course set by the Marriage Equality referendum towards a freer, more enlightened and more equal society or we will take a major step backwards towards the dark ages of repression,…
People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny has called for the Department of Justice and Equality and the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) to initiate a statewide and comprehensive health and safety review of all direct provision centres in Ireland. He also called for any direct provision centres who are in breach of health and safety…
Contents of this issue: Clonburris SDZ Residents become victims of planning controversy Referendum on the 8th Amendment Medicinal Cannabis Bill Housing Crisis – Landlord Parties Don’t Help The Vultures have landed Time to act on Climate Change National Development Plan – to Privatise New Constituency office opened UNCRPD ratificaiton Click on each page image to…
Leo Varadkar’s invitation to Donald Trump is an insult to anyone concerned with human rights. It comes just days after Trump appointed a torturer as director of the CIA. Gina Haspel was in charge of a CIA ‘black site’ in Thailand and, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, was ‘up to her eyeballs in…
‘When we win, you will be arrested,’ chanted a group of anti-choice campaigners at Brid Smith, the People Before Profit TD. It might sound like a bit of nasty bravado but it is exactly what they want. There is already a provision in the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 which provides for a…
In April 2016, the Northern Catholic Bishops issued an extraordinary questionnaire to any politician standing for election. One question stood out. ‘What will you do’ they asked ‘to uphold the right to life of children conceived though sexual crime’? The meaning was pretty clear. They wanted an electoral boycott of any politician who committed to…
WHY FINE GAEL PROTECTED GARDA COMMISSIONERS Maurice McCabe almost broke down yesterday when he gave evidence that a Garda Commissioner, Martin Callinan, has spread rumours that he had ‘sexually abuse his own children and his nieces’. He reported how he met a Garda press officer who had told him that ‘I destroyed you’. Callinan retired…
A search unit officer at a regional airport was sacked for being a strong advocate of the use of medical cannabis. Disgracefully, the Labour Court, which heard his case, did not order his re-in statement but awarded him €9,000 instead. The worker’s performance at work was above average and he never had any disciplinary problems.…
Contents in this issue: Clonburris SDZ Repeal the 8th Amendment Medicinal Cannabis Bill Time to act on Climate Change PESCO – First step towards European Army Housing Crisis – Landlord Parties don’t help Garda Corruption and the Political Establishment New Constituency Office UNCRPD Pay Equality for Teachers Click on each page image to view in…
Last year, the government approved 334 applications for military flights to land at Shannon airport. These are overwhelmingly US military planes who were supporting different wars in the Middle East. US soldiers are engaged in combat missions in Syria where there is a scramble by imperial powers to crave out their spheres of influence. In…
