September 02, 2010 RSS

A Level Playing Field

A Level Playing Field - by Mary Upton TD

Ireland is a sports mad country. From Italia 90, the Rugby Grand Slam, the All Ireland's or the thousands of local and county leagues sport occupies a central role in Irish society and in Irish peoples lives. As party spokesperson on sports I have been working on a Sports Policy for several months now together with members from across the party.

Participating in Sport and Physical Exercise has huge personal benefits in terms of personal health and community integration. While we are a sports mad country, the research shows your education, your economic status and your gender play a significant role in determining your level of participation in sport and physical activity.

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August 20, 2010

Hannigan volunteers in Nepal

Our own Senator Dominic Hannigan is one of four Irish politicans taking part in the 'Politicans for Development' programme where politicans serve as volunteer in programmes in Africa and Asia during the summer recess.

Dominic has travelled to Kathmandu yesterday to work with the Blue Diamond Society, an organisation in Nepal for sexual minorities.

The Irish Independent covered the story today which you can read on their website here.

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August 17, 2010

Labour Youth call for opportunities for Leaving Cert students

Tomorrow is a big day for our 55,000 Leaving Certificate students with the release of the Leaving Cert exam results.

To highlight the lack of opportunities available for those students Labour Youth today organised a demonstration at the Dáil.

Speaking at the event, the chairperson of Labour Youth Rory Geraghty said: "Since this recession began the government has made no serious effort to invest in job creation or education and training. We have seen many of the allowances available for Third Level students slashed, we've seen the availability of college courses decrease and we've watched the introduction of Third Level fees by stealth.

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August 10, 2010

Deputy Róisín Shortall supporting the case for second-level Educate Together school - Where to Next?

Educate Together recently launched its Where to Next? research on the kinds of secondary schools children from Educate Together primary schools progress to. The research found that children progressed to all types of post-primary schools, but with a preference for co-educational models.

The research also surveyed the opinion of parents on where they would like to send their children if an Educate Together secondary school were available and 90% of parents expressed a preference for a second level Educate Together School.

Established in 1978 with the opening of the Dalkey School Project, Educate Together is patron to 58 multidenominational primary schools nationwide. It applied to open its first second level school in Lucan in 2007, where it has five primary schools in operation.

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July 30, 2010

Mayors in Chairs 2010 - 2011

Once again this year we have an impressive list of Labour councillors as Mayors in local authorities around the country, you can see the full list below, well done to everyone.

Trim Town Council
Cllr James O'Shea Leas Cathaoirleach

Granard
Cllr Sean Howard Mayor

Thurles Town Council
Cllr John Keenan Mayor

DunLaoghaire Rathdown
Lettie McCarthy Cathaoirleach

Fingal County Council
Ken Farrell Cathaoirleach
Cllr Peter Coyle Deputy

Athy Town Council
Cllr James McMahon Leas Cathaoirleach;

Westmeath County Council
Michael Dollard chair
Mullingar Town Council
Detty Cornally

Tralee Town Council
Cllr Arthur Spring Mayor
Gillian Wharton Slattery Deputy Mayor

Drogheda Town Council
Paul Bell Mayor
Ged Nash Deputy

Gorey Town Council
Cllr Robert Ireton Mayor (first Labour Mayor in 28years)

Tipperary Town Council
Cllr Billy Bourke elected Mayor

South Dublin County Council
Cllr Eamonn Maloney Mayor
Cllr Pamela Kearns Deputy Mayor

Kerry County Council

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July 29, 2010

We're recruiting

EDIT: August 9th, the deadline for applications has closed.

We're recruiting for a parliamentary assistant (12-month contract). You can find out more details of the job brief including where to send applications and deadlines on our recruit page.

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July 28, 2010

Thornton Hall - a shocking white elephant, says Rabbitte

Almost ten years after the Thornton Hall plan was announced and after the expenditure of vast sums of taxpayers money, Thornton Hall has been confirmed as one of the most expensive, misconceived and poorly planned projects in the history of the State, our Justice Spokesperson Pat Rabbitte TD said yesterday. It will 2014 before a single prison place becomes available.

He said Thornton Hall has become a 'shocking white elephant' for which Minister Ahern and Mr McDowell must share responsibility.

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July 27, 2010

16, Moore Street

On Friday the Labour Leader Eamon Gilmore TD and Deputy Joe Costello following an invitation from the Save 16 Moore Street committee, retraced the route the Leaders of the 1916 Rising took after they left the GPO.

Led by James Connolly Heron, great-grandson of James Connolly with other relatives of the 1916 leaders, Eamon and Joe walked the route which brings you in and out of the alleyways behind Moore Street and Parnell Street.

There are more pics from the walk on our Flickr account, you can also read a previous statement on 16, Moore Street released by Deputy Costello.

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