The Parliamentary Labour Party will hold its Autumn think-in in The Mansion House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 on Thursday the 22nd and Friday the 23rd of September. A full agenda and details of media arrangements will be available in due course.  

Today, Labour TDs have published their amendments to the Government’s Motion re: Appeal the European Commission’s decision that Ireland provided unlawful State aid to Apple. To insert the following after paragraph (iv): “(v) strongly supports the ongoing work of the OECD and the EU through the BEPS process to tackle aggressive cross-border tax planning; (vi) insists…

Finances gained from sale should be invested in the North Fringe The saga that is Priory Hall is nearing finality. The apartment complex in Donaghmede is being rebuilt by Dublin City Council from the ground up at a cost close to 30 million euro. Former apartment owners who had at one time planned to build…

While the Government motion to be debated in the Dáil this week has yet to be circulated to opposition parties, based on sections of that motion that have been circulated to the media over the weekend, the Labour Party is today making clear that amendments to the Government motion will be tabled to demand more…

Notwithstanding the past three days of panicky kerfuffle in Government circles, it was always inevitable that the Apple state aid decision would be appealed, if only by Apple. And it would have been a daft state of affairs if Ireland was not party to that appeal, particularly when it is likely many other EU states…

Cycle lane and greenway projects in Dublin are being long fingered as funding for design work has being withdrawn. The National Transport Authority has told Dublin City Council to stop work on a number of projects until the end of 2017, including the Dodder Greenway, the Grand Canal Cycleway, the Clonskeagh to City Centre Cycleway,…

                                                                            Executive Manager Dublin City Council Planning Department Civic Offices Block 4, Floor 2 Wood Quay Dublin 8   Planning…

The hotel industry must moderate prices or face the loss of the special concession it has enjoyed since 2011, according to Joe Costello. “The most recent study of Accounting and Advisory firm Crowe and Howarth found that profits per hotel room were up by almost 30% in 2015 across the country. “This is even higher…