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Ireland-South

New Year: Same Old Healthcare Crisis

At the start of January, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) reported that there were 931 patients waiting on trolleys in Ireland’s hospitals. A consultant in Emergency Medicine for Beaumont Hospital Dublin Dr Peadar [...]
Ireland-South

Fight racism! Fight for a socialist future!

WE DEMAND HOMES FOR ALL JOBS FOR ALL HEALTHCARE FOR ALL 2023 has opened with a sharp and substantial upsurge of activity by far Right and even some fascist forces in the South of Ireland. [...]
Ireland-North

Packed meeting opposes BBC cuts

The main hall of Derry’s Guildhall was packed for a meeting to protest BBC management’s plans to effectively close Radio Foyle. Virtually all 300 chairs laid out were occupied, and there were a couple of [...]
Ireland-North

Lessons of the Strike Wave: Working class Solidarity on the picket line and at the ballot box.

As 2022 closes and 2023 opens hundreds of thousands of public and private sector workers are taking strike action, standing together on cold picket lines. There are so many disputes that it has become difficult [...]
Ireland-South

Varadkar Becomes Taoiseach Again: Everything Must Change so that Everything can Remain the Same

Leo Varadkar’s second term as Taoiseach began on Saturday 17 December. Under the coalition deal struck in 2020 Micheál Martin steps down as Taoiseach and the position ‘rotates’ to Varadkar. This manoeuvre extends the shelf-life [...]
Ireland-North

BBC Butchers News

BBC has announced proposals that mean the butchering of the news service on BBC Radio Foyle. Foyle serves Derry and the surrounding area. Without a news service it is hard to see the station surviving [...]
Ireland-North

“The Biscuit of Socialism”: The NHS comes to Northern Ireland

“Once they start nibbling the biscuit of socialism, before they knew where they were their children would be tied hand and foot”. Northern Ireland Prime Minister Basil Brooke on voters during 1945 election campaign The [...]