The Home Help/Home Care Action Group will march to Dail Eireann on Wednesday 17th October to demand that the Government and HSE immediately cease attacking the elderly, sick and disabled and restore all home help hours and home care packages cut this year. "At a time when so many sectors of Irish society are being targeted for vicious austerity cuts for the sins of the well paid politicians, hubristic property developers and greedy speculating bankers that brought the country to the verge of economic ruin," Mr.

With the regime of Bashar Assad desperately trying to cling to power, the death toll has risen to 30,000 fighters since Syria's revolution began. Simon Assaf argues that the revolution remains popular, non-sectarian and led by Syrians themselves, despite the claims of some commentators on the right and left of the political spectrum.

In a statement Richard Boyd Barrett TD for People Before Profit/ULA has condemned as barbaric HSE plans to go-ahead with a planned further cut in hundreds of thousands of hours of home-help for elderly and disabled citizens.

Deputy Boyd Barrett called on the public to join a protest march that has been called by home-helps and service users on Wednesday Oct 17th at 3pm, assembling at the spire in O Connell St, Dublin.

In a statement this evening Richard Boyd Barrett TD said Minister Reilly's statement in the dail this evening was unconvincing and still leaves the important questions unanswered. The People Before Profit-ULA TD went further to say the Minister is using sophistry to avoid answering the real questions.

Workers from the Clery’s outlets placed pickets on Clery’s department store O’Connell after liquidators stepped in and closes branches at Guiney’s Talbot Street, Blanchardstown, Sandyford/ Leopardstown & Naas town retail outlets. Worker turned up at the Naas retail outlet only to find liquidators putting locks on the premises. The liquidators asked the two workers to inform the rest of the workers not to bother turning up as there would be no access to the premises.

Home help workers left Enda Kenny shaken this week. Over the last few months a campaign has been building amongst some of the lowest paid, yet hardest working, people in our communities. There have been meetings of home helps organised the length and breadth of this country, with protests at the Dail, as well as demonstrations in Cork, Wicklow and Sligo.

Over the past few weeks sectarianism has once again been thrown onto the political agenda with the parading outside St. Patrick's church, the riots in North Belfast and the Ulster Covenant centenary march.

County Grand Chaplain of the Orange Order Mervyn Gibson has declared that "No one will have a Veto over the Ulster Covenant parade", in response to residents from Carrick Hill who had issues with the march passing the church again, after the anti-Catholic 'Famine Song' was played outside the venue when loyalists provocatively marched outside the church previously.

Pro-Choice Campaigners put pressure on Government. Since the x-case in 1992 and subsequent referenda the question of abortion has been ignored by every consecutive Irish government. Despite the fact that the people have on multiple occasion expressed their support for legislation on the legal provision of abortion in Ireland when the mother’s life is at risk, including the risk of suicide, the issue has been ignored by politicians.

This week Minister for Health, James Reilly, proved that the old ‘stroke politics’ of the Irish establishment are alive and well. Having been given a list of primary care centers by Junior Minister, Roisin Shorthall, he proceeded to add two new centers located in his own constituency. This is an act of cronyism to rival the worst excesses of the Haughey era and it proves that we are no closer to the ‘accountable politics’ promised by the incoming government.

In a statement, Richard Boyd Barrett TD for the People before Profit Alliance/ULA has condemned as “outrageous” the move by Clare Co. Council to deny third level grants to applicants whose parents have not paid the household charge.

Deputy Boyd Barrett said it was also unacceptable that the Minister for Education would allow Clare or any other Council to engage in this sort of bullying, with money that was not their own but which was given to them by the government specifically to provide grants for third level applicants, who were entitled to them.