Oct 9, 2018
00 “For the second year running, there is a total absence of any Budget funding to help students cope with the rapidly escalating costs of going to third level by reducing fees or increasing access to SUSI grants.” Students in schools and colleges have been... 
Sep 13, 2018
00 ““I’m delighted that my fellow councillors supported my motion to block the sale of the Magdalene Laundry site at Sean McDermott Street. This Laundry is a site of national historical importance and its sale to the Tokyo Inn hotel chain would have been an act of... 
Sep 12, 2018
20 Social Democrats councillor Gary Gannon has expressed grave concern about the heavy-handed tactics used in an eviction of homeless protestors in Dublin by masked private security men which was overseen by gardaí also wearing balaclavas. Councillor Gannon said: “The... 
Sep 3, 2018
01 “The sale of the Laundry would be an act of cultural vandalism that is wrong. The Sean McDermott St Magdalene Laundry should be turned into a centre to remember, honour and memorialise those who were incarcerated in laundries and other institutions.” Over... Aug 31, 2018
00 “If we are to learn anything from our past, if we are to honour those who were so badly institutionalised or abused, we need to create places where we commemorate, remember and learn.” On Monday next, 3rd September, Dublin City Councillors will vote on a... 
Jul 25, 2018
00 “Partnering with the big technology companies to implement a digital apprenticeship scheme would be game changing for Ireland’s economic prospects. It also offers a second chance at a fulfilling career to those that feel condemned to the fringes of economic life in... 
