Cost Of Living

Micheál Martin and Simon Harris squared off against Bríd Smith and other left supporters behind Affordable Ireland Campaign's banner WE DEMAND AN IRELAND WE CAN AFFORD.

Affordable Ireland Campaign says Government Package Completely Inadequate

"Completely inadequate." It will not provide much relief to those in arrears for electricity or the 30% of households who are in fuel poverty. Experts are predicting that electricity bills could rise by €800 this year. Protest tomorrow at 5:30 at Dáil.

24 Mar 2026

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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

MLA Pay Hike a Slap in the Face of Struggling Families

MLA Pay Hike a Slap in the Face of Struggling Families

The 27% pay hike wasn't inevitable but it was unjustifiable

13 Mar 2026

Oil trucks on the road

Cap Heating Oil at 1 Euro Now

People Before Profit call for reintroduction of energy credits as prices soar. Call for maximum €1 per litre price cap on home heating oil.

12 Mar 2026

People Before Profit's Denman Rooke 2026 Galway West By-Election

Denman Rooke Selected As People Before Profit Candidate for Galway West By-Election

Offers radical alternative on housing and the cost of living. Will oppose militarisation and defend neutrality. By-election is opportunity for left cooperation to defeat Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil.

24 Feb 2026

Supermarket checkouts

People Before Profit slam latest grocery price hikes - Another opportunity for parties of the left to work together

People Before Profit has criticised the Government’s inaction on the cost-of-living as grocery price inflation reaches 6.8% Tuesday at 12 noon the Affordable Ireland Campaign will be launched at an event outside Leinster House on Kildare Street.

9 Feb 2026

Thousands gather at a Cost Of Living Coalition march in Dublin in September 2022.

End The Cost-Of-Living Crisis - Join The Affordable Ireland Campaign

Paul Murphy says "The Government acts like Robin Hood in reverse - stealing from the poor to give to the rich. It is not because it does not have the money." Next week, People Before Profit, Sinn Féin, Social Democrats, Labour Party, and other left Independents will launch Affordable Ireland.

7 Feb 2026

Occupation of O''Connell Bridge in 2018. Prominent placard reads 'Public Housing Not A Landlord State'

A New Law To Raise Rents

A new reason for eviction: every time tenants change rents can be reset to market levels... Our rents are 30% higher than the EU average. In Dublin's average rent is now 50% of the after tax income of the average worker. The most unaffordable rents in Europe will be even more unaffordable.

7 Feb 2026