People Before Profit

Arts And Culture

People Before Profit Td Receives Confirmation From Coillte That 39 Acres Of Forested Land At The Scalp Is Up For Sale

Sale “stinks to high heaven and must be halted.  Selling off the public forest totally unacceptable” In a statement this morning, Richard Boys Barrett TD said he was shocked to

5 Nov 2021

News

Tesco Mandate Deal Is Bad For Workers

Currently the Mandate trade union is balloting its members in Tesco on a deal that will see a deterioration in pay and conditions if passed. Earlier in the year Mandate

4 Nov 2021

News

People Before Profit TD And Local Councillor Call On Council To Keep Public Toilets On Seafront In Dún Laoghaire

People Before Profit representatives, Richard Boyd Barrett TD and Councillor Melisa Halpin, have written to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council calling on them not to remove the public toilets at

4 Nov 2021

Education

Taoiseach COP Comments On Methane Pledge- A Poor Attempt At Spin

Comments show that political will to take necessary climate action is absent Comments at the COP26 summit by An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin TD, that Ireland will sign a global pledge

3 Nov 2021

Climate

Rhetoric On Forestry At COP26 Belied By Net De-Forestation In Ireland And Consistent Failure To Meet Afforestation Targets

In a statement Richard Boyd Barrett TD said, highfalutin rhetoric about protecting forests at the COP conference was, in Ireland’s case, “deeply hypocritical” and “seriously contradicted by recent government

3 Nov 2021

Climate

Free Derry Wall For COP26

Free Derry Corner was temporarily adapted last night to raise awareness of the urgency of the Climate Crisis as world leaders meet at COP26 in Glasgow as they decide their

3 Nov 2021

News

Communities Minister Should Act Now To Restore The Rates Support Grant

People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin said, “The decision by the Sinn Féin Communities Minister to slash the Rates Support Grant (RSG) by 25 per cent is unacceptable. The loss

3 Nov 2021

Climate

Td Horrified To Discover Coillte Sale Of 16 Hectares Of Public Forest

TD says sale must be stopped immediately – privatisation of public forest totally unacceptable People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett has said that he is “horrified” to discover that Coillte

3 Nov 2021

News

People Before Profit Launch Bill To Ensure Equal Rights For Young Workers

At a media conference today at Leinster House, People Before Profit launched a new Bill to ensure equal rights for young workers, guaranteeing uniform pay for all earning the minimum

3 Nov 2021