politcal news from Cork, Ireland
Ted Tynan
WORKERS’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has called for a new deal for Mayfield which would develop the positive aspects of the Northside suburb, comprehensively deal with neglect and dereliction and put the creation of jobs and building of community on top of the agenda.
Ted Tynan
Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan said that the revelation that former government ministers had received over €4 million in pensions last year while some of them continue to receive other payments from the state should spark public outrage, especially from those who are suffering the brunt of cutbacks.
Ted Tynan
WORKERS’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that move by some local authorities to withhold payment of student grants to children whose parents had not paid the Household Charge was a despicable act which scapegoated young people and families already struggling as a result of the cutbacks.
Cllr. Tynan said the threat was blackmail and that comments supporting the move from the Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn and other government representatives were despicable.
Che Guevara
Cllr. Ted Tynan of The Workers’ Party has called on the Tánaiste and minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, to call in the US ambassador and protest in the strongest possible terms to him over remarks made recently by the chairman of Homeland Security in the US, Peter King regarding the proposed erection of a statue commemerating Che Guevara in Galway.
Cllr. Tynan was commenting on a statement by Peter King, that if the proposed statue of Che Guevarra went ahead there would be reprecussions for Ireland.
Ted Tynan
CORK Workers’ Party Councillor Ted Tynan has said that the government and others on the Yes side in the EU fiscal treaty would be making a huge mistake if they assumed that the poor turnout in the referendum meant people were indifferent to austerity and mass unemployment.
Cllr Tynan said that the Northside of the city had delivered a massive rejection of the government’s policies which was only hidden because rural votes in the North Central constituency had masked the true scale of public anger.
Ted Tynan
THE Workers’ Party will hold a public meeting in Cork next this week (Wednesday) as part of the party’s campaign for a no vote on the Fiscal Treaty referendum. The meeting will be held in the Metropole Hotel in MacCurtain Street at 8pm on Wednesday night (May 16th).
Padraig Mannion
ADDRESSING an anti-Austerity Treaty meeting in Cobh last night (Friday), Workers’ Party referendum campaign director Padraig Mannion said that the EU Fiscal Treaty represented “bad economics, bad law, and was a blatant attack on democracy”.
Mr Mannion said the treaty was bad economics because it seeks to solve the wrong problem and as a result arrived at a totally dangerous remedy. The problems in the Irish economy, he said, were mass unemployment, a shrinking domestic economy; and an ageing infrastructure. [Read more...]
Ted Tynan
CORK Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan has described as “tremendous news” the settlement tonight (Wednesday) of the Vita Cortex dispute following a 139 day sit in by 32 workers at the Cork plant in order to get an acceptable redundancy deal.
Cllr Tynan said that the news was what all of Cork had been waiting to hear and he praised the workers saying they had been an inspiration to the people of Cork, Ireland and the wider world. [Read more...]
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