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Budget 2025: Pre-election peanuts that do nothing to address deep crises   

October 3, 2024 Ciarán McKenna

Flush with a €25 billion surplus the coalition government has published a budget for 2025 that would gladden the heart of ‘Celtic Tiger’ era Bertie Ahern. There will be increases to a wide range of […]

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Ireland-North

Biggest ever strike in Northern Ireland

January 17, 2024 Fiona O'Loughlin

Northern Ireland will see its biggest strike wave ever on 18 January, involving over 150,000 workers. Across the public sector, workers are demanding pay rises, as well as ensuring pay parity, where relevant, with public-sector […]

Ireland-North

Packed meeting opposes BBC cuts

January 9, 2023 Anton McCabe (National Executive Council, National Union of Journalists, personal capacity)

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

BBC Butchers News

December 1, 2022 Anton McCabe (National Executive Council member, National Union of Journalists, personal capacity)

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-South

Ten Years After the Troika: No Return to Austerity!

December 4, 2020 Ciarán McKenna

It is surely the bitterest of ironies that a mere ten years after the arrival of the Troika in Ireland on 28 November 2010, our society faces yet another profound economic crisis. While it remains […]

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