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@labour
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6 years
“I just want to address not turning up - I have been turning up since 1969.” @MichaelDHiggins 🙌🏻🙌🏻 #Áras18 #PKdebate
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@labour
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Cormac Ó Braonáin embodied all that was good about our movement and would have been a leading light in the future of our party. Our thoughts are with his family and all of his friends. Ar dheis dé go raibh a anam dílis.
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@labour
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#Throwback : After nearly 26 years in the #D áil, Willie Penrose has picked up some interesting supporters along the way. @NiallOfficial
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@labour
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The first batch of our #Repealthe8th posters were printed this week. They’ll be coming to a lamp post near you in the coming days. #Together4Yes
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@labour
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On this day 30 years ago, Labour Party candidate Mary Robinson was elected the first female president of Ireland. 🌹 What an amazing inspiration and fantastic leader Make sure to share your memories of the election and the impact of her Presidency #maryrobinson30
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@labour
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It’s official @ivanabacik has been deemed elected as a TD in #DublinBaySouth 🌹
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@labour
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Niamh Bhreathnach was a true feminist and socialist, and an unstoppable campaigner for equality. She played a vital role with @labourwomen and was a passionate advocate for gender equality in our politics. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam. 🌹
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@labour
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Over 18,000 women have travelled to the UK for an abortion since 2012. We need to care for Irish women at home. Nothing can change unless we #Repealthe8th . For compassion in a crisis vote Yes on May 25th. #WhoNeedsYourYes #CBLive
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@labour
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3 years
A grotesque leak of illicit images, our senator @hoeyannie has urged the Dáil to pass Labour's Online Harassment Bill outlawing revenge porn. We need to ensure revenge porn is a criminal offence and is not tolerated in our society.
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@labour
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4 years
Will Fine Gael stop wasting public money, build homes and fix health? #GE2020
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@labour
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6 years
If we trust Irish women to make a choice to go to England for a termination of pregnancy, why can't we trust them to stay at home? - @AodhanORiordain #CBLive #Repealthe8th @Together4yes
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@labour
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Congratulations to our newest Senator @hoeyannie who has just been elected on the #Seanad2020 Agricultural Panel! 🌹👏🏻
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@labour
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For someone who hopes to be President to make disparaging comments about any vaccine when we are in the midst of a measles crisis and when we are just getting over a loss of confidence in the HPV vaccine is completely irresponsible. @alankellylabour #Áras18
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@labour
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Congratulations to @alankellylabour who has been elected as the 13th Leader of the Labour Party. 🌹👏🏻
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@labour
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4 years
This year @labouryouth awarded the Jim Kemmy Thirst for Justice award to the family of Cormac Ó Braonáin, who died tragically in December 2019, while serving as Chair of Labour Youth. Cormac contributed so much and will leave an everlasting legacy with our Party. 🌹
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@labour
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@RuthDavidsonMSP Hi Ruth, wrong Labour Party...
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@labour
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3 years
Many women want to have smear tests after seeing Lynsey’s statement and @PhelanVicky getting her treatment in America but cannot get appointments. Can the HSE publish a list online of clinics currently providing exams to ease anxiety. @alankellylabour
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🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹 🌹🌹🌹 🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹 #GE2020
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@labour
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"I don't have to put on a political costume and a caricature to pretend I'm working class like some" @DuncanSmithTD has criticised the Healy Rae's comments, stating that he knows the plight of workers . Labour is a workers party and our motion before the Dáil is pro workers.
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@labour
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What a scorcher of a day. ☀️ If you're planning a few pints later or a bag of cans in your back garden, make sure you vote first. #Repealthe8th #TogetherForYes #Together2Vote
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@labour
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Watch back @BrendanHowlin forensically destroy the explanation from the government and minister McEntee about the process followed when appointing a supreme court judge
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@labour
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We are so touched by the outpouring of love for our wonderful Cormac Ó Braonáin. He touched the lives of so many with his relentless positivity and thirst to change Ireland for the better.
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@labour
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Today @labouryouth are launching their Born Here Belong Here campaign A call to restore automatic citizenship to children who are born in Ireland. ✊🏻 #BornHereBelongHere
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@labour
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And our #Seanad2020 team is complete. Congratulations to @rebeccamoy who has been elected to the Admin Panel 🙌🏻🌹
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@labour
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We’re getting reports of our posters being taken down and replaced by others. With bad weather coming tonight if you see any of our posters torn, damaged or in need of repair let us know so we can fix or replace. #repealthe8th #Together4Yes
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@labour
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Wishing our @PresidentIRL a very happy birthday and thinking back to that magical day when he won the presidential election in 2011. #MichaelD80 has always inspired us from when he was president of our party to now as president of our wonderful Republic 🌹
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@labour
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Sure @LCreighton it's obvious you're Zayn & given your history, you'd be the first to leave! #GE16
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@labour
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Huge congrats to @IvanaBacik who has just been re-elected to the Seanad on the @tcddublin panel. 🙌🏻🌹 #Seanad2020
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#OnThisDay in 1990, Mary Robinson was elected President of Ireland, the first woman to hold the post. 🌹
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@labour
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We can't stand by while immigrants are scapegoated for the wider problems in our society - @marie_sherlock Our country simply wouldn't run without immigrants. Our capital city is all the better for its diversity and the many people from all walks of life who call it home. ☘️
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@labour
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“It has been an honour to lead the Labour Party but now is the right time to pass on the baton to a new generation.” @BrendanHowlin announces his intention to step down as @labour Leader.
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@labour
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We are an open and tolerant nation. Trump’s values are not our values, and there should be no welcome mat laid out for a man of his world-view. #TrumpInIreland
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@labour
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It’s official🙌🌹✊🗳️ @ivanabacik is our @labour by-election candidate for Dublin Bay South.🗳️ Join #TeamIvana - get involved.🌹✊ Let’s do this #dbs21 Sign up here
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The proposals by Government on travel are totally half-baked. We are going to have to put in stronger measures as the numbers come down in order to suppress this virus. - @alankellylabour #RTEPT
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@labour
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Our friend and colleague @BrendanHowlin has announced that he will not contest the next General Election. A week is a long time in politics but after forty years Brendan has done the State and his beloved Wexford some service. On behalf of all the Labour Party, thank you. 🌹
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@labour
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5/5 ain’t bad. 🌹🎉 Meet our new Senators 👇 @RebeccaMoy @hoeyannie @MarkWall1 @marie_sherlock @ivanabacik
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@labour
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Why are vaccines being rolled out in the Beacon private hospital which hasn’t signed up to the HSE deal, when frontline health workers are waiting for it in our acute public hospitals? @AodhanORiordain questions the Tánaiste in the Dáil who pleads ignorance - not good enough!
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@labour
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To build an equal society, Labour wants the following: -A real living wage for workers💶 -Radical change to housing policy🏡 -A just transition to a low carbon economy🌿 -An end to health inequality👩‍⚕️ -Every child to have a fair start in life👶👧
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Today is a great day for all those who have ever felt unsafe on the internet Our bill 'Coco's Law' has passed and will be legislation in 20201! This wouldn't have been achieved without the hard work of Brendan Howlin and @Jackiefox21
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@labour
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Ivana Bacik elected @labour leader.   “My pledge as leader is that I will fight for change, as I’ve always done. Change is always a choice. These choices shape our future. #ChangeCantWait 🌹🍞
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@labour
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The Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Bill has passed the Seanad. 1,429,981 Yes votes and decades of campaigning got us here. 🙌🏻🌹 #legisl8 #repealedthe8th
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@labour
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Throwback: @MichaelDHiggins defending the Minimum Wage. Throughout his life as a public representative Michael D has always done us proud. #Áras18 #rtept
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@labour
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A cause for celebration this weekend as @PresidentIRL celebrates his birthday. Watch this throwback: a classic Michael D contribution in the Dáil as a proud Labour TD
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@labour
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Great turnout for the #IrelandForAll protest Today we marched in solidarity with community organisations, activist groups and political parties to show a cead Mille failte to all who seek refuge here Ireland For All 🌹
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@labour
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Today we selected our candidates for #SE2020 : 👉Labour Panel: @marie_sherlock 👉Industrial and Commercial Panel: @MarkWall1 👉Admin Panel: @RebeccaMoy 👉Agricultural Panel: @hoeyannie
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@labour
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We're proud support the #IrelandForAll Solidarity March this weekend. 🗓️ Saturday 18 February 🕜 1.30pm 📍 Dublin, Parnell Square to Customs House We hope to see you there
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Congratulations to our newest Senator @marie_sherlock who has been elected onto the Labour Panel. 🌹🙌🏻 #Seanad2020
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Congratulations to @MarkWall1 who has been elected to the Seanad on the Industrial and Commercial panel. 🌹👏🏻 #Seanad2020
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The people of Northern Ireland deserve better than to have their democracy used as a bargaining chip. Openness & generosity of spirit on all sides is needed to make a success of what emerges from this politically tumultuous period. #StrongerTogether @Keir_Starmer | @ivanabacik
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@labour
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We think school profiling is fundamentally unfair. Check out @aodhanoriordain tell the Government why their #LeavingCert proposals are unfair. 👇
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@labour
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Irish people aren’t allergic to socialism. Our President, Michael D. Higgins, is not just a Labour man and trade unionist, he is a socialist. #Áras18
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Congratulations to @aodhanoriordain selected as a Labour's Dublin candidate this evening. Now more than ever we need a strong and sensible socialist voice in Europe. Join us 🌹
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@labour
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Massive congratulations to our newest Dublin City councillor @marie_sherlock ! 🌹👏🏻
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@labour
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There are so many amazing women in the Labour Party who have achieved so much for this country. We’ll be offering free membership for the year to any woman who is recruited by a party member through this campaign during the month of March ✊ #morewomen
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Huge congratulations to @berlinnaeus who was selected to contest #LE24 for the Labour Party in Leitrim tonight. 🌹 Interested in building #AnIrelandThatWorks ? Drop us a DM or join us 👉
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@labour
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A year ago today @alankellylabour was elected the 13th Leader of the Labour Party. 🌹 Despite living through a pandemic, our Labour team has been working hard to make change happen. Now more than ever Ireland needs a strong @labour Party. Join us today
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“I have explained what I stand for, what I have stood for, and what I will stand for, for the next 7 years.” @MichaelDHiggins has done us proud in the last 7 years and as the decade of centenaries continues we need someone like Michael D to head up this sensitive time #rtept
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@labour
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🚨RECALL THE DÁIL🚨 A Minister has resigned. We are in the middle of a national health crisis. Schools are due to reopen under incredibly difficult circumstances. Leaving Cert results are to be issued soon. But the Government won’t allow our parliament sit. #RecallTheD áil
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Irish requirement for teaching training a barrier to a diverse workforce - @AodhanORiordain “The need for Higher Level Irish at Leaving Cert level jars with other mandatory subjects. 👉 ..
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Labour members protesting outside the Russian Embassy today. We stand in full solidarity with the Ukrainian people following the unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
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Senator @MarkWall1is launching our bill this morning to outlaw gambling advertising ✊🏻 💰We have a national problem with gambling in this country. In 2019, Ireland had the 7th highest gambling spend in the world - €9.8 billion (€379.51 per head)
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Enough is enough. It’s time to stop the waste of public money - build homes, fix health, freeze rents, create a public childcare scheme and cut carbon emissions. #GE2020 #AnEqualSociety
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@labour
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Arriving at the count center @ivanabacik thanks the voters in #DublinBaySouth for putting their trust in her as we await the outcome of the Bye-election and thanks her supporters for helping her run such a positive campaign #VoteIvana
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@labour
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We’re calling for a YES vote this Friday. This referendum is a once in a generation opportunity to correct a terrible wrong done to tens of thousands of Irish women. #repealthe8th #yourYESmatters #Together2Vote
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“Cormac was one of the best to have in charge of your campaign, he was a wonderful motivator of people.” “He endeared himself to everyone with enormous integrity and incredible charm in both his personal and political life.” @Maryfreehill1
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Great news! Thanks to a motion by @RebeccaMoy Dublin City Council are due to provide free sanitary products in all their buildings. 👏🏻🙋🏻‍♀️ @HomelessPeriodD @deirdrekingston #EndPeriodPoverty
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“New politics has worked on the basis of consensus and we can continue that. There is no reason for the Government to change speaking time for Opposition parties.”- @DuncanSmithTD #D áil
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@labour
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With the vote a little over a week away, today we launched our final posters. When a woman is in a crisis situation, we need to support her, not export her. #Repealthe8th #Together4Yes
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PhD students are workers. They contribute massively to our society and knowledge pool. Too often they are locked out of their potential because of exorbitant fees. We must put an end to the exploitation of the work of PhD students. #LP23 #AnIrelandThatWorksForAll
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Going into town shouldn't mean spending the day in traffic. It's time we build a city for people who want to spend time in it, not for those on their way somewhere else. Let's improve public transport, remove unnecessary cars and create a city that works for all. 🚶🚏
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Ireland has a terrible legacy of failing women 🏥🌹 We've spent years, putting State money into religious-owned infrastructure, we've seen the impact that has had on women's healthcare, so we have to move in the right direction on this hospital #MakeNMHOurs @OurMatHosp
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@labour
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Delighted to welcome three new members to our team! 👋🏼Anna Marie- policy and research officer 👋🏼Clodagh - press officer 👋🏼Conor Sheehan- Regional Organizer
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The Labour Party has expressed our sympathy to the family and friends of our former Senator and National Organiser Pat Magner who sadly passed away on Monday. In a statement Party Leader @ivanabacik recalled his decades of commitment to our Party. 🌹
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@labour
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Tonight’s speech form our Education Spokesperson @AodhanORiordain stating that it’s clear the Minister has lost control of this situation and only continues to make it worse. The only enemy he rightly pointed out is #COVID19
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@labour
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The government have decided to vote down our amendment to extend mandatory quarantine to all unessential travel into Ireland The wrong decision on their behalf that will leave us at risk from the further spread of #Covid19 and it's variants
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@labour
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Happy belated Birthday @ivanabacik . What a weekend to have had a birthday. 🎂🎉
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@labour
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Racism has no place in any society. We take our role as legislators and as a party seriously to be anti-racist and to end racial discrimination at all levels of society. We stand with the #BlackLivesMatter movement today and every day.
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Hate will never win. #Solidarity
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@labour
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On this day in 1916 the founder of our Party-James Connolly was executed. Connolly’s vision endures for all of us in Labour today 🌹
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@labour
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A President who will always do us proud. Maith thú @MichaelDHiggins . #Aras18 #MichaelDHiggins
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@labour
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How it started vs. How it's going @ivanabacik our candidate for #dbs21 by-election has campaigned for reproductive healthcare from when she was involved in student politics, and continues to do so today with her latest bill on Reproductive Leave #RepealMemories #repealedThe8th
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Sheila Nunan has been selected as the @labour candidate for Ireland South in May’s European Parliament elections at our convention today in @ImperialCork hotel #ep19
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Workers on the frontline are working around to clock to keep us and our loved ones safe during #Covid19 . The work they are doing is incredible. Go raibh míle, míle maith agaibh for everything you do. 👏 #ClapForOurCarers #SolidarityAt8
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When it comes to our education system, I think Irish people are up for having a discussion about the issue of the State-Church relationship. - @aodhanoriordain
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Trying to recap on all our work in a 2 minute video is tough but we did our best! With all of this and more the Labour party are gearing up for a productive and busy 2021. If you want to be a part of our work then visit
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Housing is the cornerstone of a person’s life. After SIX WASTED YEARS of failed housing policy, the government’s silver bullet, Housing for All, is failing. Labour will vote #NoConfidence in this government’s housing Minister tomorrow. #HomesForAll #HousingCrisis
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The Labour Party stands with Deliveroo drivers. #DeliverooRidersStrike
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@labour
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Huge congratulations to Anne Ferris who has just been elected in Bray East! 🌹♥️
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“It was the ambition of the @labouryouth chair, Cormac Ó Braonáin to ensure that children who were born here get citizenship.” @alankellylabour #BornHereBelongHere
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Hundreds of people miss school everyday due to period poverty and period shame ✊🏻🩸 @RebeccaMoy ’s bill will ensure everyone have access to free period products! Go to and have your say (PS. Follow us on Tik Tok)
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The 8th Amendment has put the health of women at risk.  Voting Yes will allow women and their doctors to make decisions based on medical needs, not deeply flawed wording in the constitution. - @DrMarkMurphy #Repealthe8th #Together4Yes
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Today our Leader @alankellylabour announced our new team of spokespeople. Labour Party TDs and Senators will hold this government to account to ensure that all our people have a fairer future.
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⚽️Calling all football fans⚽️ For years there has been under-investment in the Beautiful Game. It's time to change that. Tomorrow, Labour will launch a survey about what politics can do to grow football across Ireland as well as our plans to promote investment in the game.
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The Labour Party
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Watch as the Taoiseach confirms to @alankellylabour that errors have been found in the #LeavingCert Calculated Grades process. We need answers from the Minister for Education on what exactly has happened and what this means for students.
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And we’re off 🙌♥️ A brilliant, enthusiastic start to @ivanabacik campaign ✊🏻 #VoteIvana #DBS21 #DublinBaySouth
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Our Director of Elections @DuncanSmithTD is asking you to join #TeamIvana We're at the beginning of a very exciting by-election campaign to elect @ivanabacik for #dbs21 and she will be confirmed as our candidate this Monday night🌹 You can sign up here👉
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“I am a child of immigrants. I stand with all of those who come here seeking refuge…Ní neart go cur le chéile…” - Ivana Bacik Inspiring show of solidarity and speeches today at #IrelandForAll march. This is our Ireland! 🇮🇪
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“They said being the party leader would be the highlight of my career but getting that reaction on @VirginMediaIE gogglebox has me buzzing! Even people at home realized the ridiculousness of the state of contact tracing in this country!” - @alankellylabour
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@labour
The Labour Party
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Today, our members are celebrating our 110 year anniversary. Ireland has changed so much since 1912, but what remains constant is our commitment to progress, and our core belief that true equality lifts us all up.  That’s the role and goal of Labour Now, Then and Always.
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@labour
The Labour Party
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Our gal @RebeccaMoy has just been elected in the South West Inner City. 🌹
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