Check against delivery Delegates and friends, Good evening, and welcome to Wexford. Here in 1911, workers faced the first lock-out after demanding decent terms and conditions. Two hundred metres from here is the grave of John Redmond – leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. For more than two centuries, men and women in this town…

The Labour Party is holding its 69th National Conference in Wexford this weekend. The three-day event, which will be attended by more than 900 party members and supporters, will be an opportunity to showcase the party’s policy work over the past year, and present the party’s plans for the future. Speaking ahead of the Conference, Labour…

Labour Party Housing spokesperson Jan O’ Sullivan T.D. has this morning contacted Minister Simon Coveney to ask for his intervention to stop the eviction of the residents of Fisherman’s Quay, Grove Island. Deputy O’ Sullivan believes that legislation passed just before Christmas in the Dáil may protect the residents depending on the number who have…

Labour spokesperson on Health, Alan Kelly has slammed Minister Simon Harris’ hypocritical stance on the Sisters of Charity and the National Maternity Hospital.  “Simon Harris seems to have forgotten about his tirade against the Vincent’s Hospital group at the Public Accounts Committee back in 2013. Back then, Minister Harris rightly criticised Vincent’s Private for using…

This is my fourth selection convention in the past week.   And it has been genuinely encouraging to see so many members turn out at every meeting, in support of our fine party candidates.   Ged Nash in Louth, Rebecca Moynihan in Dublin South Central and Andrew Montague in Dublin North West have already been…

Labour will be selecting our candidate for Dún Laoghaire tonight Cllr Deirdre Kingston is the only candidate going before the selection convention.  It will be attended by Party Leader Brendan Howlin, local councillors and Labour Party supporters. Details are as follows: Date: Wed 19th April 2017 Location: The Graduate, Killiney Time: 7.30 pm

Labour Spokesperson on Climate Change Sean Sherlock has dismissed the Government’s intention to introduce its own bill to ban plastic microbeads as “time wasting.” “There is no reason for the Government to introduce their own bill,” said Deputy Sherlock. “We have been promised new politics, but nearly every time a private member’s bill comes up…

It’s great to see so many of you here this evening, in support of two fine party candidates. The last twelve months have been pretty lacklustre in Irish politics. Far from seeing the dawn of a ‘new politics’, as so many hoped for, this has become, in Jan O’Sullivan’s words, a do-nothing Dáil. 2016 saw…