Shift To The Left In Local Election as Alliance Wins Five Council Seats
Alliance Wins Five Council Seats
Alliance Says Government Must Be Driven From Office
Time For New Political Force To Offer A Real Alternative
People Before Profit Alliance win 5 Seats: Full list of results
In a local election which saw the left perform extremely well, the People Before Profit Alliance won 5 Local Election Seats.
In Dun Laoghaire, Richard Boyd Barrett topped the poll on the first count and took 22.8% of the vote.
The following candidates were elected.
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dun Laoghaire)
Hugh Lewis (Ballybrack)
Joan Collins (Crumlin)
Brid Smith (Ballyfermot)
Gino Kenny (Clondalkin)
Full results as follows:
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown :Dún Laoghaire :
BOYD BARRETT, Richard 4091 22.8% (Elected)
Ballyfermot-Drimnagh
SMITH, Bríd 2269 18.8% (Elected)
Crumlin-Kimmage
COLLINS, Joan 2512 17.4% (Elected)
Artane-Whitehall
O’SULLIVAN, Martin 391 2.4%
North Inner City :
STEPHENS, Colm 210 1.8%
Pembroke-Rathmines :
EVANS, Bryce 639 3.6%
South-West Inner City :
MacVEIGH, Tina 682 8.2%
Waterford City South :
FELL, Donie 308 5.2%
Tallaght Central :
DUNNE, Pat 1346 5.7%
Roscommon :
STEVENS, Tim 119 1.9%
Clondalkin:
KENNY, Gino 1137 7.3% (Elected)
Tralee :
Sean Moraghan (Tralee Town Council) 127 1st Pref 1.3% (beat 2 FF and tied with Green)
Dundalk:
Syd Smith
51 1.0%
Vote for real change on Friday
Elections 2009
People Before Profit Alliance says Vote for Real Change and Give the Government a Bloody Nose
Alliance Predicts Gains For Left Independents
Attacks On Joe Higgins Show The Establishment Is Running Scared
The People Before Profit Alliance today called on the public to vote for real change on Friday
Spokesperson Richard Boyd Barrett said “The response at the doorstep and recent poll results show there is a real desire fro change. People are angry with a government that has pumped billions into failed banks while services and wages are cut and dole queues get longer. On Friday the public should vote for candidates who offer a genuine alternative to the failed policies of the establishment parties. We are confident that the People Before Profit Alliance and other left independents will make gains. We are aiming to have more seats than the Greens who are now a spent force in Irish politics.
Tenants First launch an alternative housing programme
Tenants First has outlined proposals for a public housing strategy to meet the housing crisis.
The report describes current government spend and policy in housing as ‘social welfare for the rich’, including €391m on rent supplement, €169m on tax incentives, €450m on stamp duty loopholes, and €400m unspent in local authority accommodation.
Young People Must Vote For Real Change
Tina Mac Veigh speaking at Crumlin Hosptial Protest
The government is trying to save €9.6 million in Crumlins Children’s hospital resulting in ward closures, cleaning staff being sacked and two theaters being shut
People Before Profit candidate Seán Moraghan on Newstalk this Sunday
Listen out for a Radio Interview with People Before Profit candidate Seán Moraghan on Newstalk 106FM’s "The Wide Angle with Karen Coleman",12-12.30, Sunday morning 31st
People Before Profit support Hospital Demonstration
The People Before Profit Alliance attended the demonstration held at Kerry General Hospital on Saturday 23rd of May. Over 200 people turned out early Saturday
TRALEE: Asylum System Protest this Saturday
Asylum Seekers in Tralee are unhappy with their treatment and their facilities and the quality of their lives in the town’s asylum hostels.They and their supporters are calling a demonstration which will assemble at The Square, Tralee@ 11.30am Saturday 30th May, and then travel to protest outside one of the hostels (for operational reasons this hostel will be specified later).
"Tralee Refugee Asylum and Migrant Voices" in association with "People Before Profit Alliance" invite you to join them at The Square @ 11.30am Saturday 30th May 2009.
Asylum seekers and Refugees live amongst us but are not fully accepted by our society. Their treatment by the state, and suspicion and resentment among some members of the general population marginalises them.
Those with significant education and qualifications are left to rot; they should instead be allowed to contribute their skills to their new country. Those without skills are denied adult education.
Many hostel residents suffer from health problems. Denied a fully realised existence they are subject to stress and depression.
They are given poor quality meals and of a type that is outside of their culture.
They have been subject to outright racist abuse from the very people who have a Duty of Care towards them.
Those asylum seekers who try to voice their complaints, or represent their community, are quickly moved to other hostels.
Videos of Launch of People Before Profit’s ‘Alternative Economic Agenda’ Document & more
On Tuesday 28th April People Before Profit Alliance launched the ‘Alternative Economic Agenda’ Document & at a press conference on Wednesday May 20th a group of left, environmental and independent councillors and activists called on the public to vote for candidates in the local elections who offer a genuine alternative to the failed policies of the establishment parties.
Click on images below to watch speeches by Cllr Chris O’Leary (Ind, Cork), Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit Alliance, Dun Laogahire), Vincent Browne (Journalist & Broadcaster), Cllr Catherine Connolly (Ind, Galway) and more.
Cllr Chris O’Leary Richard Boyd Barrett
Time To End Church Control of Schools, Hospitals and Social Services
- Religious Orders Must Acknowledge Guilt and Responsibility
- State Must Take Action To Recover Taxpayers Monies Paid To Religious Orders
- Time To End Church Control of Schools, Hospitals and Social Services
The People Before Profit Alliance has today called on the eighteen religious orders identified by the Ryan Report as culpable of gross maltreatment of children to fully acknowledge their guilt and responsibility.
A spokesperson for People Before Profit said, "We are profoundly shocked by the behaviour of the religious orders, who are now further compounding the abuse they perpetrated by their brazen refusal to re-open a deal which they negotiated in bad faith."
‘DUBLIN ’S BANKSY’ JOINS LOCAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN
Dublin based graffiti artist Maser has pledged his support to local election candidate Bryce Evans. Bryce Evans, a first time candidate under the People before
