Health Tuesday 19th Jan 7.30pm: Care In Crisis – Nationalise The Private Hospitals! – With Phil Ní Sheaghdha (Inmo) With the surge of the third wave of the pandemic hospitals and healthcare workers have come under immense strain once again. In the south, with close to 2000 people hospitalised 18 Jan 2021
Workers Rights Builders Need Real Workers’ Trade Unions During Covid TUF Guy Talk Trade Union Federation (TUF) officials make the argument that the builders who aren’t lazy want to keep working on site. But we are seeing this week: 15 Jan 2021
News Mother and Babies Home – We Need A Criminal Investigation and a Seizure Of Assets ‘They are spreading the blame – so it sticks thinly’. This is how one survivor described Michael Martin’s disgraceful apology to survivors of the Mother and Babies homes. The political 15 Jan 2021
Education Derry & Strabane Council To Hear Alternative Zero Covid Strategy People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin said: “Following from my proposal in October, representatives Prof. Anthony Staines-Dublin City University and Prof. Helen Dolk-Ulster University from the Zero Covid Group (Independent 13 Jan 2021
Health How Greed For Profit Is Slowing Vaccine Production Pfizer has already made a $975 million profit on their vaccine and expect to make $19 billion more in 2021. The world needs Covid-19 vaccines as a vital tool for 11 Jan 2021
Health People Before Profit Questions Value For Public Money In New Hospital Deal Party suggest requisitioning private facilities and paying wages of staff as a bridge to a fully public health service People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny, a member of the Oireachtas 11 Jan 2021
Education Reject This Terrible Deal: Frontline Workers Deserve More Many public sector workers will be disgusted by the news that the new Secretary General of the Department of Health is to get a salary increase of €90,000. That’ 11 Jan 2021
News Stop Any Commercial Development On Gallweys Hill Tramore People Before Profit Waterford again reject the planning application for Gallwey’s Hill, Tramore. This site should be developed for the community as previously stated. Discussion surrouding the site came 11 Jan 2021
Health “Executive Must Take Control Of Private Facilities To Aid Health Service” – Carroll As reports of hospitals breaching capacity, healthcare works being begged to come back to work, and appointment cancellations continue to emerge, PBP MLA Gerry Carroll said the Executive must take 11 Jan 2021