This is what you get by running a state owned electricity company on a commercial basis. We need to renationalise the energy sector and run ESB on a not for profit basis, cap salary of CEO and prioritise affordable electricity and rapid transition to renewables.

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Ireland Should Go Further than New York’s Public Grocery Plan

A majority of those surveyed in TheJournal.ie think there should be public grocery outlets. How do we fund it? Fund it through a Public Nutrition Levy on the profits of the fast food industry and larger food retailers.

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How Much Money are the Billionaire Collison Brothers Putting into Progress Ireland?

Paul Murphy repeats call for disclosure of Collisons’ funding of Progress Ireland. California billionaires’ tax vote is part of growing worldwide demand. People Before Profit to reiterate multi-millionaires tax proposal in Budget 2027.

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SIPTU reiterates support for Israel-Ireland boycott. #StopTheGame 🗞️: www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

SIPTU reiterates support for Israel-Ireland boycott

SIPTU has reiterated its support for members who refuse to participate in the hosting, servicing or facilitation of the upcoming soccer matches between Ireland and Israel.

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Uefa have just set the precedent, now the FAI must act on Israel games. By stating that Fifa competitions would be boycotted, Uefa have opened the door for the FAI. #StopTheGame 🗞️: www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer...

Uefa have just set the precedent, now the FAI must act on Israel games

By stating that Fifa competitions would be boycotted, Uefa have opened the door for the FAI.

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I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi...

Visa for Gaza students

I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?

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Europe is burning, and the warnings from scientists have never been clearer. Wildfires have already burned more land than the average annual total of the last two decades. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes in Spain and France. The result of decades of governments

Scandalous that 140 social homes in Dublin 9 have been lost to the private market, with rents now advertised for as much as €4,500 a month. This is the inevitable result of a dysfunctional housing model. While families languish on decade-long waiting lists, the current system prioritises risk-free

🗞️Householders to be hit with higher network charges on electricity bills. Ireland already has the most expensive electricity in the EU. Now households are being hit with another increase. Meanwhile, data centres accounted for 23% of all electricity used in Ireland last year.. Working people are

Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. It should not be welcomed onto the international sporting stage while it commits war crimes and apartheid. Ireland should refuse to play Israel. Solidarity with everyone demanding #StopTheGame 🗞️Group removed from Dept of Sport following Ireland vs Israel

Group removed from Dept of Sport following Israel protest

A group of protesters have been removed from the Department of Sport in Dublin after they occupied the government building in opposition to a football game between Ireland and Israel in October.

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Developers opting out at the very last minute to deliver any social homes to an AHB and charging €4,500 is what you get when you incentivise people to extract the maximum amount of profit possible out of a need that people should never be expected to live without. We need to take back control from t

Build the Cost of Living Revolt - March on 19 Sept in Dublin: www.pbp.ie/join-the-aff...

The rich never stop to worry about whether they’re making it too hard to live as a worker, the working class should have the same attitude right back.

Across Ireland, families, students, and workers are struggling to make ends meet. With Budget 2027 right around the corner, we’re mobilising to demand action on the cost of living. We demand an Ireland ordinary people can actually afford. An Ireland where workers can enjoy the fruits of their labou

The billionaire class is driving the climate crisis. Their private jets, superyachts and fossil fuel empires produce emissions on a scale ordinary people could never match. Yet we’re constantly told that workers and families must shoulder the burden while the super-rich carry on as normal. If we wa

The government wants to use public land to build and sell unaffordable homes, abandoning any pretence that public housing should be accessible to everyone. This is a robbery of all the potential that our public land bank has, stealing what could be thousands of homes for ordinary working class peopl

The rich never stop to worry about whether they’re making it too hard to live as a worker, the working class should have the same attitude right back.

Naoise Dolan’s powerful piece in the LRB exposes the brutal reality of the Dublin housing crisis. Activists turned a vacant Victorian pub into the Anne Devlin Community Centre; bringing Irish language classes, first aid, and a volunteer café to the Liberties. What did the system do? Sent in the Gar

The Irish government is sending delegates to an anti-anti-fascist conference organised by the Trump regime. Let’s call it what it is: being anti-anti-fascist means standing up for fascism. Ireland has a proud revolutionary tradition of standing against fascism. When fascism threatened Europe, the v

Public meeting in Tallaght about An Post's plans to move our sorting office to Lucan. This will be a disaster for workers and our community. It will mean having to travel to Lucan to collect missed parcels. Pressure to get An Post to drop this plan is growing.

These are segments from James Connolly’s open letter to Dublin Castle in 1898. Today, a different flag flies over Dublin Castle, but the social evil Connolly fought against remains. Neoliberalism keeps millions of working people on the brink, or in the depths, of poverty. The EU speaks endlessly ab

The door is always open if you’re rich enough with Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael while workers have to fight tooth and nail for the bare minimum.

Every time there’s a crisis, the working class is told to tighten its belt. Use less. Consume less. Accept less. Now, as our water system comes under increasing strain, working class people are once again being told to conserve. Meanwhile, the Government continues to greenlight the endless expansio

In 1995, the average house cost around 5 years' wages. Today, buying a home in Dublin costs almost 10 years' wages. A #HousingCrisis created by political choices. We need rent controls, a ban on no-fault evictions, and a massive programme of public housing. 🗞️ How many years of salary buys a home

How many years of salary buys a home in Ireland v Europe?

The house purchasing power of Irish residents has weakened in the last few decades, but is the path to home ownership any shorter outside Ireland?

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Ireland is one of the wealthiest countries in Europe. But it's also one of the most expensive. The problem isn't a lack of money. The problem is a government that puts landlords, energy companies and big business before ordinary people. Another Ireland is possible. Get involved at pbp.ie

Overall, prices in Ireland are 36% higher than the EU average. 📈 Housing costs ⚡ Electricity prices 🏥 Health costs It's the result of political choices. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have allowed energy companies, landlords, private healthcare and big corporations to profit while ordinary people a

Challenge Airlines illegally transported “military aircraft parts” through Irish territory to Israel. The Irish government has refused to act since The Ditch first reported on the airline’s illegal munitions trafficking almost two years ago.

Airline illegally transports munitions to Israel

It did so two years after being exposed.

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#CostOfLiving - Annual CSO figures on electricity use by data centres in Ireland. Singapore is the closest country comparison at 6-8% of electricity on the grid. 🚨Ireland is now at 23%🚨. A complete outlier. 🗞️Data centres accounted for 23% of electricity usage last year www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Data centres account for 23% of electricity usage - CSO

The percentage share of total metered electricity consumption used by data centres rose to 23% in 2025 up from 22% in 2024 and just 5% in 2015.

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