Electricity

Pull the Plug No More Data Centres Art by Mary Martin over train bridge near Kilmeadan.

Kilmeadan Stops Data Centre - Permission Denied - Victory for People Power

It's Kilmeadan 1 - Tech Billionaires 0: the controversial unwelcome data centre plan has been denied planning permission.

15 Oct 2026

Deputy Paul Murphy to join ‘Energy Vampires and Job Robbers Not Welcome’ protest at AI Summit - 11am tomorrow, Wednesday at the RDS, Dublin 4

Deputy Paul Murphy to join ‘Energy Vampires and Job Robbers Not Welcome’ protest at AI Summit - 11am tomorrow, Wednesday at the RDS, Dublin 4

AI data centres are the toxic waste of the 21st century. They consume almost a quarter of our electricity, paying just half the electricity rate that households must pay, and driving up electricity prices for everybody else.

13 Oct 2026

Paul Murphy Condemns Government Using EU Presidency to Promote Big Tech Profits

Paul Murphy Condemns Government Using EU Presidency to Promote Big Tech Profits

Anti-data centre protest ‘Energy Vampires and Job Robbers Not Welcome’ at 11am, on Wednesday at International AI Summit

8 Oct 2026

Worried family and Dáil under pressure from Data Centre.

TDs Vote Today on People Before Profit Motion for €500 Electricity Credits Funded by 20 Cent Levy on Data Centres

People Before Profit calls for ban on new data centres - ‘the toxic waste of the 21st century’.

23 Sep 2026

People Before Profit-Solidarity Think-In: €500 electricity credit funded by data centres levy

People Before Profit-Solidarity Think-In: €500 electricity credit funded by data centres levy

Will discuss proposals for multi-millionaires tax to fund public services To hear calls for action on gender based violence emergency

10 Sep 2026

Conor Reddy Slams 'Data Centre Levy' on Soaring Household Electricity Costs

Conor Reddy Slams 'Data Centre Levy' on Soaring Household Electricity Costs

Conor Reddy has repeated the party’s call for a moratorium on data centre development. Demands price controls to reduce electricity prices for households.

28 May 2026

Tractors on a quiet O'Connell Street Saturday 11 April with the Jim Larkin Statue GPO and Spire in the background

The Fuel Protests: Blame The Government Not the Protesters

Back the basic demands. Defend the right to protest. Oppose the frauds on the far-right and discuss the protest leaders, but let's keep coming back to the real issue of unbearable price increases and where they come from. Workers, unions- let's deepen the movement for a country we can all live in.

12 Apr 2026

News

Paul Murphy Condemns Government Silence on Trump’s Genocidal Threats

Will challenge Government in the Dáil on its ‘craven’ silence, failure to enact OTB, its blind eye to US in Shannon airport and plans to end Triple Lock. Irish people will resist being reduced to vassal state.

8 Apr 2026

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