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UTV Workers Shouldn't Be Sacrificed on the Altar of Profit

UTV Workers Shouldn't Be Sacrificed on the Altar of Profit

Cllr Shaun Harkin said, 'Sky bosses need to come clean on how UTV workers will be impacted by their £1.6bn takeover of ITV. Sky's takeover should be about workforce investment, not redundancy threats.'

16 Jul 2026

Carlow College Staff Welcome Oireachtas Committee Support as Calls Grow for Review of Closure Decision

Carlow College Staff Welcome Oireachtas Committee Support as Calls Grow for Review of Closure Decision

Hearing exposes significant unanswered questions about decision. Committee members heard evidence from staff. Staff reps confirm campaign will continue advocating over the coming months to ensure issues raised before Oireachtas Committee remain firmly on the national agenda over the summer.

16 Jul 2026

Slashing Apprenticeship Funding is a Political Choice. Reverse the Cuts.

Slashing Apprenticeship Funding is a Political Choice. Reverse the Cuts.

Cllr Shaun Harkin: The Stormont Executive has failed to agree a budget but the buck stops with the Sinn Féin Economy Minister. Imposing austerity and pulling the ladder out from under workers is always a political choice.

16 Jul 2026

Paul Murphy Calls for Urgent Audit of Data Centre Water Usage

Paul Murphy Calls for Urgent Audit of Data Centre Water Usage

Condemns fine threats and calls for water supply to data centres to be reduced during heatwave. Repeats call for ban on further data centres

15 Jul 2026

Richard Boyd Barrett next to an image of a shed with a door. A no sign over the shed. Background: a Dáil Committee room in session.

Richard Boyd Barrett to Oppose Government’s ‘Shedsit’ Regulations

Calls for Government to focus on bringing vacant properties back into use

14 Jul 2026

Cllr Conor Reddy pictured in front of city centre park in Dulbin

Cllr Conor Reddy Speaks as Councillors Judicial Review Case on Renamings Begins in the High Court

Dublin City Council has been blocked from progressing two major renaming proposals: the proposal to rename Diamond Park in Dublin 1 as Terence Wheelock Memorial Diamond Park, and the proposal to remove Chaim Herzog’s name from Herzog Park in Rathgar.

13 Jul 2026

Moygashel bonfire outside Dungannon, Co. Tyrone

Beyond Bonfire Sectarianism - Time for Working Class Unity

These scenes should be condemned without hesitation. What we urgently need now is a movement of working class people, drawn from every background, ready to stand together and challenge sectarianism head on.

12 Jul 2026

Moygashel Bonfire a 'Naked Act of Islamophobic Intimidation' - Gerry Carroll

"It has been sickening to witness a repeat of last year's racist hate-mongering at the Moygashel bonfire. The burning of a model mosque on a bonfire

10 Jul 2026

Palestinians with empty pots and food containers in their hands waiting for family food above a line of US soldiers in Shannon Airport waiting for services. Paul Murphy in foreground.

Bill to Ban US Military Aircraft from Ireland

Paul Murphy to introduce bill to ban US military or civil aircraft carrying munitions of war from landing in the State after decades of Irish neutrality violations.

10 Jul 2026