Health

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

Poster saying Public Meeting PMDD & Endometriosis: Systemic Neglect and the Need for Action Ballymun Axis 7pm 19 Feb Chaired by Cllr Conor Reddy. Dr Doaa Ali, Jodi Maloney, Shauna Halpin

Leading PMDD and Endometriosis Activists to Speak at Public Meeting in Ballymun

"Conditions like PMDD and endometriosis have been under-researched, underfunded and under-recognised. We need the state to act to undo the damage that systemic medical misogyny has caused."

18 Feb 2026

Temple Street Children's Hospital

Nayagam Report Must Be Published

All surgeries on children and adults by surgeon must be reviewed.

11 Feb 2026

Person in ICU bed being rushed to care by health workers. Richard Boyd Barret speaking. Yellow and white abstract graphic.

Mental Health Care in Crisis

"Before people end up in an emergency department, there should be community-based alternatives, and crisis intervention teams, so there are other supports available for people in these situations." - Richard Boyd Barrett

28 Jan 2026

Cllr Adrienne Wallace in front of the an image of Carlow General.

Cllr Wallace Launches Petition to Save Pathfinders Service

"The manner in which they have abruptly stopped Pathfinders does not inspire confidence, nor published any data that explores the ramifications that even a temporary closure will have on people in the community. There is also a concern that this could affect Pathfinder services nationwide."

19 Jan 2026

Paul Murphy in front of an image of the recent Trans and Intersex Pride March.

Transgender Healthcare in Crisis

Paul Murphy: “The truth is Ireland is failing badly. We are the worst country in the European Union for availability and accessibility of transgender healthcare. We have one gender clinic offering transgender healthcare to adults in Ireland and that is the self-appointed National Gender Service..."

3 Dec 2025

Hunger Strikers at the Dail with signs saying Ireland's Shame and Hungerstrike Protest Survivors of Industrial and Reformatory Schools

Support the Survivors of Industrial and Reformatory Schools

49 Days into the Survivors' Hunger Strike

7 Nov 2025

Picketing Health Workers at Altnagelvin Hospital & Cllr Shaun Harkin: Pay Healthcare Workers What They Are Owed! 'The Stormont Executive must halt broken pay promises etc...' Motion PASSED.

Motion Backing HSC Workers Receives Unanimous Support In Derry City & Strabane District Council

'The Stormont Executive should prioritise fair pay for HSC workers and stop running down the health service through privatisation and the siphoning out of hundreds of millions in public funds.' Cllr Shaun Harkin

4 Nov 2025

News

Richard Boyd Barrett to Begin Phased Return to Dáil

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett is to begin a phased return to the Dáil after completing successful treatment for cancer. “I am delighted that my treatment has been successful and that my doctors have said I can begin to return to work.

31 Oct 2025