Following the massive protests across the country against Irish Water and the water charges, Enda Kenny tried to claim that the only alternative is increases of up to 4% in income tax.

Wednesday 29 October 2014 10.0 A charity that supports older people has condemned waiting times for people trying to access the Fair Deal nursing home scheme.

Full details of Right2Water local demonstrations will be announced on Tuesday, 28th October. Another national demonstration will be organised in the coming weeks as the campaign continues to grow.

All over the country people are resisting the installation of water meters come to the protest to show your opposition to these unjust charges.

The Greyhound Waste Company has gotten an injunction from the High Court to prevent any protestor interfering with their business.

The decision of a High Court judge, David Keane, to grant an injunction to Greyhound against protestors is a blatant example of class bias. In the judge's own words, the order was an 'injunction against the world'.

Richard Boyd Barrett TD for the People Before Profit Alliance has said that the failure of the EU and US to impose sanctions on Israel in response to its “murderous” assault on Gaza, “exposes the utter moral bankruptcy of the western powers.”