Following a successful pilot, the Labour Party’s Rebecca Moynihan has secured €100,000 for period products to be made available for free in Dublin City Council.  Councillor Moynihan said: “Last year Dublin City Council approved measures I proposed to provide free sanitary products in DCC buildings such as offices, swimming pools and community centres.  “Following a…

Speaking in response to the launch of a new Contract for the Web by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, the leader of the Labour Party, Brendan Howlin TD, signalled Labour’s full endorsement of the nine principles of the Contract for the Web. Brendan said: “There is a need for an over-arching…

Labour Youth elected its National Youth Executive over the weekend at their annual National Conference in Waterford City. Newly elected National Chairperson Cormac Ó Braonáin (19) said following his election: “I am excited to take up the role of Labour Youth Chair. I care very deeply about Labour Youth and the activists who put extraordinary…

Labour’s Emmet Stagg has welcomed the decision by An Bord Pleanála on November 21st to grant planning permission to Intel for an extended and revised manufacturing facility at their headquarters in Leixlip, for the manufacture of integrated circuits. In welcoming the decision by An Bord Pleanála Mr. Stagg stated that the proposal is part of…

Labour spokesperson on Transport, Senator Kevin Humphreys, has criticised the Government for its record on tackling poor air quality. Senator Humphreys said: “We’re now reaping what the Government has sewn with it’s failure to act on dirty diesel cars. “Air surveillance stations, administered by the EPA, have found that air levels around Dublin will breach…

Commenting on the INMO TrolleyWatch figures which show 85 patients on trolleys, the highest trolley figure for an Irish hospital on record, Labour Party Health spokesperson, Alan Kelly TD, has called for a bespoke plan for University Hospital Limerick. Deputy Kelly said: “The figures released by the INMO today show 631 people on trolleys across…

Dublin Labour Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has again called for a Northside Commission to be set up following the latest fatal shooting in Coolock on Sunday. Senator Ó Ríordáin said: “This shocking murder in Coolock looks to be the fifth killing in the ongoing drugs feud in the area that’s growing increasingly violent and brazen….

The Labour Party’s 2019 Richard O’Carroll Bursary, worth €2,000 will be awarded on Monday morning, 25th November, at 10.15am to Laura Forde, a UCC Student of Commerce and former pupil of the Ursuline Secondary School. The presentation, by Labour Cllr John Maher, by-election candidate for Cork North Central, will take place in UCC in the…