What's done without mandate in the Dáil will be challenged by people power in the streets
What's done without mandate in the Dáil will be challenged by people power in the streets
State-funded companies may be contributing to Israel’s genocide and war crimes.
People Before Profit calls for referendum to allow people to decide and plans to escalate resistance during EU Presidency.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are feigning outrage at Israel’s actions but voting against the sanctions on Israel that flotilla activists asked them to support. They haven't even passed the Occupied Territories Bill and they voted down the Sanctions Bill.
Richard Boyd Barrett’s Sanctions Against the State of Israel Bill will be voted on in the Dáil (Irish parliament) this evening. Statement from Richard and Speakers' List for Dáil Demonstration.
Urges people to protest at Dáil at 5.30pm on Wednesday to demand sanctions on Israel.
Despite rain and torrential downpour as the crowds crossed the city thousands completed the march and heard the call to turn out again Wed. 20 May at 5:30 to support the Sanctions Against the State of Israel Bill in the Dáil.
Director of Elections Paul Murphy calls on RTÉ to ‘Let Eoghan be heard’ in by-election debates. Richard Boyd Barrett repeats call for ‘Vote Left Transfer Left’ pact.
Denman Rooke kicks off his campaign as People Before Profit's representative in Galway West on Monday.
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.
Richard Boyd Barrett says new RTB eviction data shows children and families among biggest victims.
Eviction ban must be reintroduced and tenant-in-situ scheme dramatically ramped up.
Councils must build and buy homes on bigger scale, particularly family homes.
Paul Murphy and Richard Boyd Barrett will be speaking outside the Dáil tonight at 6:30 at the Irish Neutrality League protest.
Greenwashing of Trump’s wars and support for Israel while accused of genocide was national embarrassment.
People Before Profit call for reintroduction of energy credits as prices soar. Call for maximum €1 per litre price cap on home heating oil.
The Irish Anti-War Movement protest tonight at 5pm will hear the People Before Profit TD Will repeat our call for end to US military use of Shannon airport.
People Before Profit’s Online Safety (Recommender Algorithms) Bill to be debated and voted on in the Dáil on Wednesday. People Before Profit oppose age verification and social media ban for under-16s.
Richard Boyd Barrett condemns Government for trying to normalise homelessness as figures reach record high. Repeats call for immediate eviction ban. - Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin says 10% of people in emergency accommodation live on Gardiner Street surrounded by vacant and derelict properties.
People Before Profit's Richard Boyd Barrett says Central Bank wealth report reveals ‘grotesque’ inequality. Repeats call for wealth tax on richest 1% to raise €9 billion
Wednesday evening saw 31 protests. People across the country stood up against the government's cuts to SNA numbers and won as families, workers, trade unionists and left parties came together for children in need of support against a government that just can't stop cutting off help to those in need.
People Before Profit and others protested at X offices against damage done by its toxic recommender algorithms.
People Before Profit ‘Online Safety (Recommender Algorithms) Bill to be debated in the Dáil next Wednesday. The Bill requires social media platforms to turn off recommender algorithms.
Government climbdown is a win for SNAs and parents, but threat of cuts remains. Government must engage with SNAs, their unions and advocacy groups on redeployment proposals and the wider crisis in special education.
Protests to go ahead including at 5pm today outside the Dáil
Richard Boyd Barrett rejects CCPC call for deregulation of taxi industry.
Deregulation would devastate taxi driver incomes and lead to customers facing rip-off ‘dynamic pricing’.
Calls for publicly owned, not-for-profit taxi app and for Minister to protect regulated industry.
Bill will enable widespread rent increases, drive more into homelessness.
Emergency protest at 5.30pm today, Wednesday, at Leinster House on Kildare Street.
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.
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.