🚨 Pledge signing 🚨 "Good jobs are organised jobs!" @SinnFeinIreland⁩'s ⁦Mary Lou McDonald⁩ signs our #GE24 pledge ✍️

“I don’t think I’ve ever heard any government say now is a great time to look after workers.” - lynda scully on why we need to put workers’ rights on the #GE24 agenda irishtimes.com/ireland/social…

🚨 Pledge signing 🚨 “Tá sé fíor tábhachtach go mbeadh cearta ag oibrithe.” Sinn Féin TD for Galway West, Mairéad Farrell TD, signs the #ge24 workers’ rights pledge ✍️ Ask your local candidates to sign at respectatwork.ie/ge24

🚨 Pledge signing 🚨 “Níl drogal ar bith orm mo thacíocht a thabhairt 100% don achta seo.” Leas-Cheann Comhairle and Galway West TD Catherine Connolly signs the #ge24 workers’ rights pledge ✍️

When you ask the bartender for your 9th pint of Guinness

Young men are entering into an economy that is unequal, a society that is atomised and workplaces that are insecure. Right-wing influencers posing as self-help gurus are appealing directly to them. But an alternative is possible. Me for The Guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“In a room in a tenement in Townsend Street, with a candle in a bottle for a torch, and a billycan of tea, with a few buns for a banquet, the church militant here on earth, called the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union was founded.” - Sean O’Casey. #OBU 116 years today.

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When Mick Lynch isn't busy standing up for the working-class, he's embarrassing Tories and journos. Have a peaceful retirement king x

NEW: RMT Senior Assistant General Secretary Eddie Dempsey confirms he is running to succeed Mick Lynch as General Secretary of the Union. Election will conclude in the first week of May 2025.

The Irish president is being attacked for being correct about foreign policy so I wanted to share an old speech of him talking about the grave evils of cutting the minimum wage. I saw this when I was young and it was part of my political awakening.

Labour’s plan for ‘growth’ won’t take off, but it will leave ordinary people behind My column theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🚨 Eddie Dempsey elected as RMT general secretary Transport union RMT, today confirmed that Eddie Dempsey has been elected unopposed as the union’s new General Secretary. x.com/RMTunion/statu…

BREAKING: Eddie Dempsey Elected RMT General Secretary We asked Eddie about taking over from Mick Lynch & his plans for RMT, he didn't hold back 🔥

What. Will. It. Take.

"You have a band being held to a higher moral account than politicians who are ignoring international law." Miriam O'Callaghan joined in studio by Kneecap's manager Daniel Lambert on #RTEPT

They do not want to talk About kids being assassinated but do want to talk about kneecap

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Israel just bombed an murdered the entire Aljazeera staff in Gaza city: Correspondents Anas Al Sharif أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammad Qreiqei, killed. Cameramen Ibrahim Dhaher and Mo’men Aleiwa, killed. Crew driver, Mohammad Nofal, killed. All murdered in an Israeli bombing of

IDF says it’s killed Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif ⁦Committee to Protect Journalists⁩ and others warned of his death a few weeks ago. Entire AJ crew in Gaza City has been killed with him cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-ca…