Type: Notification

Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin, will be available to speak to reporters today, Tuesday 9th April at 11.45am on Housing, Brexit and other issues of the day. What: Doorstep with Brendan Howlin TD Where: Leinster House Plinth When: 11.45am, Tuesday 9th April

Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin TD will be available to speak to the media at 12pm today Saturday 6th April at the Gresham Hotel, O’Connell St, in advance of a meeting of the Labour Party Central Council. Later at the meeting Deputy Howlin will outline the status of Labour electoral strategy, preparations and policy for…

Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin will visit Cork City on Monday 8th April to launch our statement of priorities for Cork City and our candidate team for the local elections in May. There will be a photo opportunity at 12pm at St Patrick’s Bridge in the city centre with the candidates to launch Our Vision…

Labour Party Employment Spokesperson, Ged Nash, will be available to speak to reporters ahead of the debate of Labour’s Measures to Counter False Self-Employent Bill 2018, today at 2pm on the Leinster House plinth. This Bill will take a number of measures to stamp out bogus self employment, a practice that deprives workers of basic…

Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin, will be available to speak to reporters today, Wednesday 20th March at 11.45am on Brexit and other issues of the day What: Doorstep with Brendan Howlin TD Where: Leinster House Plinth When: 11.45am, Wednesday 20th March ENDS

Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin will be available to speak to reporters today Tuesday 12th March at 11.30am on the latest Brexit developments. What: Doorstep with Brendan Howlin Where: Leinster House Plinth When: 11.30am, Tuesday 12th March ENDS Contact Cathal on 0874157832

Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin TD and Senator Ged Nash as part of a Labour delegation, will visit Belfast on Monday 11th March for a series of meetings with trade unionists, political activists and academics to hear their views on the potential for a democratic socialist party in Northern Ireland in the Labour tradition. What:…

Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has today announced that the ‘Irish Stand’ will renew its anti-racism campaign on St Patrick’s Day with a vigil at the Famine Memorial in Dublin at 3pm. He will be joined by playwright Lisa Tierney-Keogh and poet Erin Fornoff as they take a stand in solidarity with immigrants everywhere. As events…

Labour Party Spokesperson for Equality Cllr. Deirdre Kingston with Deputy Jan O’Sullivan, will be available to speak to reporters today, Wednesday 6th March at 12:30 pm on Kildare St, on the need for the Department of Housing to provide dedicated capital funding to Local Authorities for the provision of Domestic Violence refuge accommodation. What: Doorstep with Cllr. Deirdre Kingston…

Labour Party Senator Ivana Bacik, with TD’s Jan O’Sullivan and Joan Burton will be available to speak to reporters today Tuesday 5th March at 11.30am on the ongoing delays on the Gender Pay Gap reporting law, and ratification later today in the Dáil of the Istanbul convention. What: Doorstep with Ivana Bacik, Jan O’Sullivan and…

The Labour Party will hold our selection convention for the European Parliament South constituency on Sunday 3rd March at 2pm in the Imperial Hotel, Cork City. One candidate will be nominated, and there is a contest with two names going forward for selection. These are former Labour TD for Clare, Michael Mc Namara; and the…

Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin is in Madrid, Spain today to attend the launch of the Party of European Socialists manifesto for the upcoming elections in May, and kick off the 2019 campaign for the PES Common Candidate Frans Timmermans. The election congress is being hosted by the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and the…

The Labour Party in Kilkenny will on Tuesday night at 8pm meet at Castlecomer Community Hall, to select our candidate for the Castlecomer local electoral area. Labour will select one candidate to run in the six seat ward in the upcoming local elections in May. Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin will attend. The candidate going…

Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin will be available to speak to reporters today Tuesday 26th February at 11.30am on the latest Brexit developments in the UK and the upcoming Dáil debate on the no deal Brexit omnibus bill. What: Doorstep with Brendan Howlin Where: Leinster House Plinth When: 11.30am, Tuesday 26th Feb. ENDS Contact Cathal…

The Labour Party in Sligo will on Tuesday night at 8pm meet at SIPTU offices in Hanson Retail Park, to select our candidate for the Sligo-Strandhill local electoral area. Labour will select one candidate to run in the six seat ward in the upcoming local elections in May. Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin will attend….

Labour Party TD Jan O’Sullivan and Senators Ivana Bacik and Kevin Humphreys will be available today at 11.30 to speak to reporters on Labour Private Members’ Business taking place in the Dáil and Seanad today. This media briefing will take place on the Leinster House Plinth. Today in the Dáil Labour TDs will bring forward…

Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin and Health spokesperson Alan Kelly will be available to speak to reporters today Tuesday 5th February at 11.30 on the National Children’s Hospital and Nurses’ Strike and other issues of the day. What: Doorstep with Brendan Howlin and Alan Kelly Where: Leinster House Portico When: 11.30am, Tuesday 5th February ENDS Contact Siobhán…

The German Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection, Katarina Barley will visit the border in North Louth, on Friday afternoon with Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin, Senator Ged Nash, and Claire Hanna MLA, SDLP Brexit spokesperson. In Germany, Katarina Barley is the lead candidate for Labour’s sister party, the SPD (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) in the…

Labour TD Joan Burton will today, Thursday 24th January publish a new bill that would address the problems caused by illegal adoptions where people were not provided with an adoption certificate but rather a false birth certificate without any evidence of their adoption. The launch will take place in the Boardroom in Buswells at 11am,…

The Labour Party will hold our European Parliament selection convention for the Dublin constituency on Saturday at 4.30pm in the RIU Gresham Hotel, O’Connell Street, Dublin. One candidate will be nominated, and former TD and Minister Alex White has put his name forward for selection. There will be a media doorstep at 4.15pm at the…

On Saturday 19th January, the Labour Party will commemorate the legacy of Tom Johnson and the Centenary of the Democratic Programme of the First Dáil. The event is being run in association with the Irish Labour History Society at the Riu Gresham Hotel, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1, downstairs in the Trinity Suite. Where: Trinity Suite,…

Labour Party Health spokesperson Alan Kelly, Sinn Féin Health spokesperson, Louise O’Reilly, the Social Democrats and others will be available to reporters today to speak on the nurses’ strike and their proposals they are putting to the Dáil later today.  What: Media Doorstep on nurses’ strike When: Today (16th January), 11.30 am Where: Leinster House…

The Labour Party Leader, Brendan Howlin TD and members of the Labour Parliamentary Party will be available to speak to reporters this morning at 11.30am, Tuesday 15th January, on the Leinster House plinth about Brexit and other issues likely to arise through out the upcoming Dáil term What: Doorstep with Labour Party Leader Brendan Howlin and…

The Labour Press Office wish you all a Merry Christmas and look forward to a prosperous and happy New Year. The Office will be closed from today Friday 21st December, reopening on Thursday 3rd January. During the Christmas period press queries can be directed to Cathal McCann on 0874157832 or [email protected] Ho Ho Ho, From…