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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

Cllr Conor Reddy in front of Richard Boyd Barrett in the Dáil and a Special Education Needs Campaign Protest with Bernard Mulvany

Councillor Conor Reddy - Minister’s Replies Show No Real Plan for Special Education

Submitted by Richard Boyd Barrett, replies to Cllr Conor Reddy's questions reveal a system that is still operating year to year, no long-term planning, no clarity about scale of need, no specific commitments for areas under most pressure. Full document available.

3 Dec 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

'Almost half of people in Ballyfermot and Cherry Orchard regularly miss meals due to a lack of money': Cllr Hazel De Nortúin

'Almost half of people in Ballyfermot and Cherry Orchard regularly miss meals due to a lack of money': Cllr Hazel De Nortúin

Says poverty is a policy choice that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael choose to continue at every budget. Calls for food price caps to end food poverty.

25 Jun 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

Government accused of siding with 'low pay bosses' against workers

Government accused of siding with 'low pay bosses' against workers

The Fine Gael-Lowry Group-Fianna Fáil Government look set to vote against People Before Profit's Trade Union Recognition Bill which would get Irish workers a right to trade union recognition at thousands of workplaces around the country.

14 May 2025

Taoiseach, Stop the ‘illegal, discriminatory justification’ of ‘anti-worker’ sub-minimum wage rates for young workers.

Taoiseach, Stop the ‘illegal, discriminatory justification’ of ‘anti-worker’ sub-minimum wage rates for young workers.

Taoiseach accused of ‘illegal, discriminatory justification’ of ‘anti-worker’ sub-minimum wage rates for young workers on International Workers' Day. Dail & Commission agreed to scrap sub-minimum wage pay for under 20s, but government is refusing to implement it.

1 May 2025