For the past three nights, violent riots have erupted in Ballymena, Co. Antrim which has seen hundreds of youths and other elements engaged in violent protest. The riots came after the reporting of an instance of sexual assault of a teenage girl by two individuals of Romanian nationality. The days since have seen protesters burning […]
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FG/FF take the knife to sick pay
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Call centre company Abtran has illegally fired a worker in Cork who was a vocal supporter of the ongoing unionisation effort. This comes after months of campaigning by members of the Independent Workers’ Union to obtain better pay and conditions in Abtran. In May workers delivered a pay claim to the company demanding, among other
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The newly re-elected Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil coalition, backed up by several independents, has already commenced its victory lap, reaffirming its support for Israel and Western imperialism. While the Irish government have tended to portray themselves as defenders of Palestine on the international stage, they have refused to stop US war planes using Shannon airport to
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So why does this mean that Britain must prepare itself for war? According to Walker, Britain has “an absolute urgency to restore credible hard power in order to underwrite deterrence”. Veiled in diplomatic language, the real reason for this commitment has been made clear in the above sentence – to reassert Britain’s interests, with an
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