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 […]
Articles by Anton McCabe (National Executive Council member, National Union of Journalists, personal capacity)
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 […]
Ireland-North
Health Service in Crisis: Campaigners Need a Political Voice
Our health service is in a state of crisis. One after another emergency departments have had to close their doors to patients in recent weeks and months. Northern Ireland has the longest waiting lists in […]
Ireland-South
Public sector pay: Vote not and strike for more!
On Tuesday 30 August the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) announced that an agreement had been struck between the public sector unions and the government on a pay deal. The terms of the deal will come […]
International
Six months of war in Ukraine: Devastation in whose interests?
Thousands of civilians and tens of thousands of troops killed, a vast number injured, and nearly 13 million people displaced from their homes – this is the terrible outcome of the first six months of […]