Speaking at the launch of Labour’s equality plan: “I’m delighted to have the opportunity to speak to you today, at the launch of these proposals. I am proud to be here as a former Deputy Leader, a Labour Party member, and as a member of Labour Women. The Labour Party has a long and honourable…

Speaking at the launch of ‘Standing Up for Equality ‘Labour’s plan for a modern, more equal Ireland’:   For the Labour Party, equality is the keystone of what we believe. Equality of opportunity. Equality of treatment before the law. Equality of rights and of duties. Equality between men and women. In recent years, we have…

Tánaiste Joan Burton today outlined Labour’s plans to stand up for women in the workplace, at home and in the community. Launching Labour’s plan for equality today, Joan Burton said, if re-elected to Government, Labour will tackle gender pay issues by ensuring large companies and public sector employers make public the details their own internal…

The Labour Party today launched its plan to hold a referendum to repeal the 8th amendment. Minister for Communications, Alex White, Minister for Equality, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin,  and Senator Ivana Bacik outlined how the party would deliver a referendum, and campaign strongly to repeal the 8th amendment, if returned to Government. Speaking at the launch…

Speaking at Labour’s launch of Labour’s plan for a Modern, More Equal Ireland: The eighth amendment to our Constitution means that our mothers, sisters and friends have no access to a legal termination in Ireland in cases of fatal foetal abnormality, rape, or incest. I campaigned against the eighth amendment in the 1980s – as…

Gerry Adams’ embarrassing performance on a major national interview broadcast this morning should make Irish people relieved that he and his party are not offering themselves for government. Over the course of the interview he tied himself in knots on the most basic details of his own tax policy, which the interviewer had a much…

It is welcome today to see Fianna Fáil commit to the creation of 250,000 jobs over the next five years, given that this is precisely the number of jobs that were lost under their watch from 2008-2011. Their jobs proposals concentrate on boosting employment across the SME sector, but this was precisely the area that…

Minister Ged Nash has welcomed the decision of the SIPTU National Executive Council to call on voters to back Labour in the election to ensure a balanced government. The Minister for Business & Employment and Labour’s candidate in Louth/East Meath said: “This election is one of the most important in the history of the state….