stormont

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Carroll: DUP Will Pocket the Wage and Wreck the Work

Carroll: DUP Will Pocket the Wage and Wreck the Work

“Gavin Robinson has admitted collapsing Stormont would hurt them at the ballot box. So instead his MLAs will sit on £67,200 a year – and over £105,000 for their ministers ... If a [worker] announced they'd spend the next six months deliberately not doing their job, they'd be sacked."

30 Oct 2026

PBP Support Daisy Hill Maternity March

PBP Support Daisy Hill Maternity March

On Sunday, thousands in Newry marched in support of maternity services as it faces imminent suspension by the Southern Trust. The march was organised by the SOS Daisy Hill campaign in conjunction with Unison the Union. **Meeting to Follow: Monday 2nd November, Ballybot House 7pm**

26 Oct 2026

Harkin: FinTrU Redundancy Process Must be Restarted

Harkin: FinTrU Redundancy Process Must be Restarted

The redundancies disproportionately affect women and those with care responsibilities. Bare legal minimum redundancy packages are a new low; previous redundancies at FinTru were above the lowest legal level. Cllr Shaun Harkin contacted workers workers and council. Next is FinTru.

26 Oct 2026

Harkin: DUP Incitement of Sectarian Tensions Must be Challenged

Harkin: DUP Incitement of Sectarian Tensions Must be Challenged

Stopping cuts and jobs culls, providing for children and stopping the handouts to bosses... Cllr Harkin says "These are the demands and grassroots campaigns bringing working-class communities together. The alternative is working-class unity and opposition to toxic division and austerity."

22 Oct 2026

Disparity for Derry. No New A&E at Altnagelvin.

Disparity for Derry. No New A&E at Altnagelvin.

Harkin: Decision Against Emergency Department Underscores Stormont Regional Disparity Policy

17 Oct 2026

Carroll: Reject Givan’s Delay Tactics. Make Sure No Child Goes Hungry

Carroll: Reject Givan’s Delay Tactics. Make Sure No Child Goes Hungry

“Time and again, working-class families are told to wait while budgets are balanced on their backs. This Bill should be a floor, rather a ceiling. People Before Profit wants universal free school meals for every child."

12 Oct 2026

People Power Forced Drumcree U-Turn

People Power Forced Drumcree U-Turn

"It didn’t come from the courts... Nor did it come from a Secretary of State... It came from the community... and thousands of ordinary people standing with them over the past two weeks. Working class communities organised from below forced every institution... to move."

9 Oct 2026

Marc Mac Seáin speaking at the Save Daisy Hill public meeting in Canal Court.

We Need An All-Island Health Configuration

"We have unfortunately been down this road before with the hospital. It’s not the first time we have been at a public meeting in Newry like this. Each time the cuts get deeper. ... We need to practically change course, or else Daisy Hill’s Emergency Department will be next." Newry Rep Marc Mac Seáin

5 Oct 2026

Free School Meals Is Common-Sense That Stormont Refuses to Implement Cllr Shaun Harkin

Free School Meals Is Common-Sense That Stormont Refuses to Implement Cllr Shaun Harkin

"It is shameful MLAs receive subsidised food in Stormont, but many working-class households have been priced out of school dinners."

2 Oct 2026