In 1951 Noel Browne tried to introduce decent healthcare for mothers & children. If he had succeeded it would have been the start of universal public healthcare. The Catholic Church, Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael attacked him mercilessly & ensured humane care was not provided.
A very impressive anti far right mobilisation in Dundalk today. The far right, mainly from Dublin, stomped around the town trying to make out they owned it but were confronted everywhere.
Respect to local PBP & other anti-racist groups for a model of local mobilisation.
CEO of Ryanair given a big chunk of time on Morning Ireland to tell the nation how we need to get back to work. I can't think of a less trustworthy source of information, but treated by RTE like he's a legit authority that we need to hear at length.
Looking forward to seeing the Ireland Says No people setting up permanent protest camps outside every Catholic Church in the state to protect the children.
Noel Browne was inspired by the launch of the NHS in 1948 when he proposed the Mother & Child scheme in 1951. If he had succeeded we would soon have had a full NHS. Never happened. Because FG/FF and the Catholic Church destroyed the scheme. And we still live with that legacy.
Dr Mary Favier of NPHET on Morning Ireland making it very clear that our under-resourced health service is why we need to move to Level 5. We won't have the capacity to cope by end Oct.
Decades of neoliberalism has come home to roost.
Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said that the €14bn in tax due to Ireland after today's European Commission ruling against Apple cannot be used for day-to-day spending, adding that the Government will give careful consideration on how best to use the funds
BREAKING: Emotional scenes as FG applaud healthcare workers while voting against extending rent and eviction protections to all local authority, approved housing bodies and Travellers.
Taoiseach Simon Harris has urged that warning signs around the abuse of politicians and public figures be taken seriously 'before the unthinkable happens'
Free public transport can be done quickly, reduces the cost of living immediately, benefits those on lowest incomes most, and reduces carbon emissions.
What are they waiting for?
The first person interviewed on the RTE Nine O'clock News report on wage increases wasn't a worker, not a trade union rep, it was...wait for it...a vintner.
@carldinnen
1. A black man cleaning a statue of a racist.
2. Cleaning work is amongst the lowest paid
3. Black and Asian people are over-represented in low paid cleaning work.
But you got a laugh.
The biggest landlord in the Dáil is currently eulogising Pat McDonagh and explaining why young workers should work for less than the minimum wage.
Of course he is.
#FairWagesForAllAges
A Government Minister just said on national radio that New Zealand having *one* new community case of covid is an argument against a
#ZeroCovid
strategy. I have trolls who are too embarrassed to make such a BS claim.
If RTE did just a couple of days of coverage like this on what's happening in Yemen, the public pressure for sanctions on Saudi Arabia would be overwhelming. And that of course is why it will never happen.
We have a Green Party Minister for the Environment and a Green Party Minister with responsibility for asylum seekers and this is the outcome of their combined efforts.
If you let immigrants into your community like Balbriggan did you'll end up winning national trophies, like Glebe North FC of Balbriggan just did, and then where will you be.
The Palestinian flag will be flown in Leinster House next Tuesday, the day in which Ireland formally recognises the State of Palestine. The decision to fly the flag was confirmed by the Ceann Comhairle Seán O Fearghail following a question from TD Thomas Pringle.
Green Party members: We face climate apocalypse. We must do whatever it takes to stop climate change. WHATEVER IT TAKES!
Me: Challenge capitalism?
GP: Not that.
So Eamon Ryan is in favour of legalising cannabis
but is concerned that a vote for legalisation will be defeated so the Greens will vote against.
Makes perfect sense obvs.
In December Ursula von der Leyen got a standing ovation in the Dáil from Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, Fine Gael, the Greens, Labour and the Social Democrats.
Everyone but PBP. It wasn't difficult to figure her out.
Yesterday he threatened escalating carbon taxes to make ordinary people pay for the climate crisis. Today's its ordinary people punished for his collapsing tax haven policies.
Donohoe doesn't get enough attention for how toxic he is.
Gaza is under constant bombardment
This is the Slaugher of the innocent.
No electricity, No food, No water, No medicine, No escape
All communication and internet have been completely cut.
The slaughter must end NOW.
#CeasefireNOW
The candidates for next Taoiseach will include a failed housing minister, a failed health minister and a finance minister who runs the biggest tax haven in the world
Be grand I'd say.