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Protest to Demand Real Action on Energy Costs

People Before Profit strongly supports the Cut Energy Costs protest Wednesday organised by the Affordable Ireland Campaign

24 Mar 2026

Image of petrol prices at 2.36 diesel and 1.99 unleaded matched with two home heating oil trucks.

Cost of Living Measures ‘Woefully Inadequate’

Expected measures show government doesn’t care: we call for call for €500 electricity credit funded by a levy on data centres, €400 cost of living payment to disabled people, extra week of social protection payments, and price controls. Support Wednesday's Affordable Ireland Protest at 5:30.

23 Mar 2026

Denman Rook in front of a bridge. Denman Rooke condemns government failure to act on climate impacts.

Denman Rooke Condemns Government Failure to Act on Climate Impacts

Government’s slow response to warnings about Ireland’s roads and bridges leaves us all at risk. Transport Infrastructure Ireland notes Ireland’s national road network — a €31 billion asset carrying more than 3.5 million vehicles each day — is at serious risk of intensifying climate impacts.

3 Mar 2026

Trump points over a bowl of Shamrocks in Washington as Micheál Martin looks on silently.

Ireland Must Oppose US Imperialism

Funding and defending genocide in Gaza. Bombing in Asia and Africa. Taking Over Venezuela. Threatening Greenland. Boyd Barrett asks "Will the Taoiseach... finally admit what everybody can see, which is that Trump is a bully, an imperialist, and a threat to the world?" ...or will it be Shamrocks?

22 Jan 2026

Richard Boyd Barrett TD

Farmers, Climate, Workers' Rights: How Mercosur Sells Us All Out

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mercosur exposes "the big powers that dominate the European Union, which are only interested in promoting the interests of the big car manufacturers and the big multinationals at the expense of ordinary working people, small farmers and the environment. That's the truth..."

14 Jan 2026

michael martin and darragh o'brien smiling

Government Has Given Up On Climate Change

Paul Murphy slams Government for ‘giving up’ on climate action. Calls out double standards of Micheál Martin’s speech at COP30 in November. The State faces potential fines of up to €28 billion by 2030. Calls for LNG plans to be scrapped and for massive investment in public transport and retrofitting

7 Jan 2026

South Dublin County Council Passes Motion on Data Centre Moratorium

South Dublin County Council Passes Motion on Data Centre Moratorium

Cllr Jess Spear submitted motion after government overturned Council ban. “The government can say 'We don’t have to choose between housing and data centres,' all they want. But the maths say otherwise.”

9 Sep 2025

Cruel, Punishing Budget Won’t Deliver for Working Class People

Cruel, Punishing Budget Won’t Deliver for Working Class People

'No new mitigations for Labour’s brutal social security cuts... People are fed up of business as usual. There is plenty of wealth in our society that could be properly taxed and used to fund our public services,' says Gerry Carroll voting against the 2025/26 Budget today.

23 May 2025

SEAI Report Reveals Data Centres Levels Make Targets Near Impossible

SEAI Report Reveals Data Centres Levels Make Targets Near Impossible

Paul Murphy says new SEAI data confirms data centre growth makes achievement of emissions reduction targets almost impossible. Says increases in emissions from big increase in energy imports may be ‘hidden’ from SEAI data.

21 May 2025