Event Date:
November 23, 2012 - 18:30
Eamon Gilmore has been invited as the guest of honour at the black tie- Bray Chamber of Commerce dinner in Bray Fri 23rd November at 6.30pm
The Wicklow CAHWT have decided to call a protest to let Gilmore know that while he dines on the best food money can buy.
Many people are going to bed hungry every night while this government are threatening people with court action for not paying a 100 euro. SHAME ON GILMORE.
Part of the build up to the mass protest on Nov 24th 1pm Parnell Square
Submitted by jotoole on September 24, 2012 - 16:34
Carton House Hotel in Maynooth, county Kildare is a very plush and exclusive five-star place.
To stroll pleasantly through the spacious 12,000-acre grounds and gaze upon the opulent 18th century palatial manor once owned by the powerful 1st Duke of Leinster, Lord Fitzgerald, must be a happy escape indeed.
Datestamp:
September 24, 2012 - 16:28
Submitted by jotoole on July 23, 2012 - 12:38
In a statement today, the Wicklow Housing Action Campaign announced that it will be protesting outside Anne Ferris TD’s local office in Bray, tomorrow (Monday) morning at 9.30am.
The Housing Action Campaign will be calling on the local TD to use her influence in government to reverse the new Rent Allowance caps.
Submitted by cboyd on June 23, 2011 - 15:27
We are protesting in solidarity with our colleagues in the Dáil who today are raising the issue of attacks on low paid workers, as a result of proposed amendments to JLC rates and working conditions, and in solidarity with citizens demonstrating at the gates of Leinster House on the same issue. Whilst we welcome and support developments and events that benefit our city and quality of life,
Submitted by cboyd on June 9, 2011 - 15:44
The lid has been temporarily lifted on the murky, disturbing and hidden world of the Irish ruling class. More than 1,900 US embassy cables have been made public to the Irish people by Wikileaks: they are being called ‘the Ireland cables’. What some of the cables reveal is the scandalous behaviour of the Irish political establishment on issues ranging from secret rendition flights from Shannon, to the remarkable levels of gross incompetence in the way the government dealt with the economic crisis.
Submitted by cboyd on May 12, 2011 - 01:05
In a press statement today, People Before Profit TD, Richard Boyd Barrett said that today’s Government Jobs initiative was “a damp squib to beat all damp squibs”.
Submitted by cboyd on April 4, 2011 - 22:49
Fine Gael and Labour lied to the electorate and now they’ve done a U-turn. During the general election they said they would insist on ‘burden sharing’: getting speculators and bondholders to pay for their own mistakes. Now they want to put €24 billion of our money into bailing out the banks. No wonder that the former FF Finance Minister, Brian Lenihan, was gloating.
