Election claims first victim
February 10, 2011
FIRST blood was drawn in the 2011 General Election campaign in the Dublin South constituency last week after an enthusiastic candidate had to be hospitalised
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FIRST blood was drawn in the 2011 General Election campaign in the Dublin South constituency last week after an enthusiastic candidate had to be hospitalised
Emergency Motion on Egypt passed at Dublin City Council 8th February, 2011 "This Council declares its total solidarity with the heroic democracy protesters of Egypt,
Meet Our Candidate- Andrew Keegan People Before Profit 8.30pm, Friday 11th Feb Greenfield Park Community Club Shanliss Ave. Santry
Over 85 people braved the bad weather to attend the official launch of the United Left Alliance in Dublin North Central. There was standing room
The first step to defusing the ticking mortgage time-bomb is to stop bailing out the banks with home-owners’ money, says People Before Profit candidate for Dublin South East Annette Mooney.
Annette Mooney, who is standing in Dublin South East as part of the United Left Alliance today criticised Fine Gael’s pledge to hand €166 a month to 250,000 home owners struggling with negative equity, while still bailing out the banks.
“Almost 40,000 people have not been able to pay their mortgages for six months or more now. Hundreds of repossession cases are being heard by the courts every week. UCD economist Morgan Kelly recently said the mortgage crisis put Ireland ‘on the cusp of a social conflict on the scale of the Land War’.”
It is not enough to just ease the burden on struggling home owners. To do so while still handing the taxes paid by the same struggling home-owners to the same banks is ludicrous and fundamentally unjust,” said Annette.
“We in PBP and the ULA have a better solution, the basis of which would be to first stop pouring money into the black-hole that is the banks. It is time to stop and to recognise how these families were bullied by an elite of property developers, banks, solicitors and other vested interests into jumping on the property ladder or risk being left out.”
In a statement, Cllr. Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA) has said that proposals now being made by the establishment political parties – Fianna Fail, Fine Gael & Labour – had little credibility given their previous records.
Cllr. Boyd Barrett said that any party willing to sign up to the IMF/EU package was effectively signing away Ireland’s democracy and handing the country over to unelected bureaucrats in the EU and IMF – rendering meaningless talk of political reform.
He added that all the main parties were part of a ‘cosy club’ that had resisted any serious attempts at political reform for decades because of personal and party self-interest.
People Before Profit launched it ‘Alternative Economic Agenda’ document at a press conference today.
Fundraiser Dublin South East candidate Annette Mooney PUB QUIZ Busy Feet & Coco Cafe South William St 8pm, Sat, 12th February Full Bar & Spot
The Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) has described proposed cuts to the education budget in the North as “unprecedented in their ferocity and highly alarming” and likely to see between 4 and 5,000 teaching jobs being cut. The cuts, proposed by Sinn Fein Minister for Education, Catriona Ruane, amount to a staggering £871 million over the next four years.
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