Campaigners to call for international inquiry into policing of Corrib protests Press conference Venue: Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin Time: 11.30 a.m. Date: Thursday, 7th April, 2011
Over 400 people attend launch meeting On Tuesday 5th April, 8pm, in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin at a meeting organised by Richard Boyd Barrett TD
Over 100 hundred local residents who attended a public meeting, Wednesday, 23 February were told that the authorities in Croke Park are attempting to close down the Handball and Community Centre located on the grounds of the stadium. Community Centre committee members told the meeting how the GAA had refused to sign a letter confirming that the centre is a bona fide Sports and Leisure Club under the terms of the licensing laws. Committee member, Eamonn O’Brien, said “This is in an attempt by Croke Park to deprive us of a bar license because they know that the bar provides the club with is main income stream and without it the club and the community centre will be forced to close.” The meeting heard how this development would allow Croke Park to demolish the centre and build a new handball centre and corporate headquarters for the GAA.
Mr. O’Brien congratulated all the local political representatives for their commitment and hard work with the community to prevent the closure of the community centre and urged them to sign a pledge to support the retention of the centre and its activities.
Before the meeting began, girls from the dance class which runs in the centre put on a short demonstration of their dance routines. Mr. O’Brien explained that “The dance class was set up in the 1970s to give young girls an alternative, a healthy activity, at a time when drugs were devastating the community”.
A protest in support of Gerard McDonnell, a former MTL dock worker, who is facing charges in relation to a “floating picket” in Dublin port
Gerry Carroll has been selected as the People Before Profit Candidate for the Assembly Elections on May 5th. Gerry has lived in West Belfast his
At today’s press conference (8th March 2011) convened by the United Left Alliance in response to the programme for government agreed by Fine Gael and Labour Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit/ULA TD for Dun Laoghaire said: “The United Left Alliance will be the consistent radical opposition in the Dáil to the Fine Gael/Labour/IMF government. We will use the platform of five Dáil seats to likewise argue for a fundamentally alternative way of organising society in the interests of people before bankers and speculators. We will also use our positions to advocate an active response from working people and the unemployed to the attacks this government want to inflict on them. The United Left Alliance will be active on the ground in the communities, workplaces, schools and colleges building resistance in the form of strikes and people power protests in the months and years ahead. Having made our breakthrough in this election we will go on to build the ULA as a nationally as a mass left alternative to the political establishment.”
The United Left Alliance will be holding a number of events next week to which the public and press are invited: ULA Victory Rally: Why
Promises to stand with local people to fight tooth and nail to block ecocidal megaproject planned by Google in Grangecastle in South Dublin. New figures
Revelations about Eamonn Casey point yet again to the gross hypocrisy of the Bishops.These are mostly elderly males who think they have every right to
Calls For Broad Mobilisation To Face Down Far-Right Terror Campaign The riot and arson in Coolock today is another shocking development driven by far right
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