The most harmful drug in Ireland is not marijuana or even heroin. In terms of the numbers affected and damage to health it is alcohol.

The Cork branch of People Before Profit are calling for a massive outpouring of support on Leeside streets this Saturday, January 31st, as community groups and politicians come together to remind the government that the people will not accept water charges.

The immediate issue is to prevent the Government forcing schools to take responsibility for assessment for certification, for the Junior Cert. This is, and should remain, the role of the State Examinations Commission.

When Gay Byrne says we should pray for a victory of the radical left in Greece, you have to sit up and take notice.

Once again the Irish health system is in crisis..

The current root of the problem is that the Fine Gael-Labour government thinks that it it is more important to pay off bondholders than look after Irish patients.

Cork People Before Profit Alliance joins with people everywhere in condemning the appalling terrorist atrocity at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris last week. There can be no excuse or justification for this horrible murder of journalists.

Brid Smith, a People Before Profit councillor, has condemned the role that RPS has been granted in the formulation of the Eastern–Midlands Draft Regional Waste Management Plan 2015-2021.

In 2014, the government was forced to backtrack on water charges by the sheer numbers who came out on street protests. But they are playing a longer game and are not giving up on their wider plans to make us pay for – and eventually privatise – water.

People Before Profit shares the near universal revulsion at the horrific murder of Charlie Hebdo journalists in Paris last week. There can be no justification for this awful act.