The following is from Frank Keoghan of the People’s Movement on the Austerity Treaty. It was also published in the latest issue of People’s News.
The EU Permanent Austerity Treaty will be the final nail in the coffin of the Irish economy, if it is ratified either by the Dail or by referendum. It will also [...]

Press release from Debt Justice Action’s Not Our Debt campaign.
The campaign group Anglo: Not Our Debt has sharply criticized the EU’s new ‘fiscal treaty’. Campaign spokesperson Marie Moran described the treaty as “akin to someone being advised to keep the doors of their house locked tomorrow while thieves were ransacking it today”. “There is something [...]

Statement from Repudiate the Debt Campaign
Once again the Government is handing over public money, this time €1.25 billion, to pay off the bond-holders of Anglo-Irish Bank. This callous, odious and unjust debt is taking a heavy toll on the Irish people.
This odious debt imposed on our people by the EU and ECB is simply [...]

Andy Storey, as spokesperson for Debt Justice Action can be heard here on RTE’s Late Debate (18th of January). He successfully dissolves much of the fog around the Anglo debt we are all being forced to repay. While the show received almost unanimous support from those contacting it through texts, emails and tweets, some people [...]

A new campaigning network of local and global justice organisations, Debt Justice Action, has today called on the government to stop paying the debts of the former Anglo Irish Bank / Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS). The campaign group - encompassing a strong and unique coalition of representatives from the trade union, community, faith-based, global [...]

From some of the 99% Network : 17 January 2012 : Monaghan/Dublin/Spain/Dundalk
This is on everyone’s lips. We are just the ones saying it out loud. It’s time for all of us who are interested in justice and democracy to stand up. We must directly challenge how the Irish State, in order to appease and protect [...]

Today marks Occupy Dame Street’s 100th day of occupation in the shadow of the Central Bank of Ireland building in central Dublin. It is a good time for us to reflect on where we are now, and where we can go
from here.
The last 100 days have been exhilarating and exhausting for those of us involved in this occupation. [...]

History Ireland Hedge School
National Library Kildare Street D.2 Wed. Jan. 11th  2012  7.00 pm
“War of Independence -

Four Glorious Years or Squalid Sectarian Conflict ?”
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LookLeft 9 is in the shops today, only €2.
This edition includes:
Reports on: student protests; Occupy Dame Street; turf wars in Kildare; AFA action against Nick Griffin; defending health services; the community fight against drugs; Occupy Wall Street; the sex industry; doctors in El Salvador; Ship to Gaza; turmoil in Egypt; the Greek Communist Party; [...]

Latest figures show long-term unemployment is rising sharply (CSO, 9 December 2011)  - yet the recent budget threatens the future of our Community Employment Programme for the long-term unemployed!
The Community Employment (CE) Programme has been targeted for massive cuts in the recent budget.  If these cuts are implemented, the impact on the local community in [...]