Belfast Bookclub: May selection. Happy reading comrades! “One of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine: reading it is like having a light shone on your understanding”. Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard.

Happy international workers’ day. The workers united will never be defeated!

MAY DAY MARCH AND RALLY: BETTER IN A UNION
DATE: Saturday 4th May
ASSEMBLE: 12:00 noon
LOCATION: Writers Square Belfast. Please click on link for full 2024 NI-ICTU programme ictuni.org/publications/m…

Today I marked International Workers Day in the Assembly & extended #MayDay solidarity greetings to Irish Congress (ICTU) & the wider international labour movement.

🚗Infrastructure Minister John O'Dowd MLA has announced a temporary 1 year exemption certificate for some private cars.

🚗This is to help reduce MOT waiting times

🚗Please see below link for additional information-

infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/news/minister-…

Pleased that the Department for Infrastructure has agreed to my request for more vigilance in Carolan Road. It has instructed its enforcement provider, NSL, to include the area for enforcement action in the remaining weeks of the school year. We will continue to liaise to find a long-term solution.

Sinn Féin is working to ban fracking and all forms of fossil fuel exploration

Economy Minister Conor Murphy has refused to grant any new licensing and is preparing legislation to ban fracking and exploration

We’ll work with everyone to protect communities and the environment

🔴 This is our home.
⚪️ This is Cliftonville.
🔴 We are The Reds.

Ireland's Oldest Football Club reunites with Ireland's biggest sporting brand.

Infrastructure Minister John O' Dowd arrives by train to the new York Street Train Station with Translink CEO Chris Conway. The new station opened yesterday.

“Make sure you run enough candidates this time Mary Lou”

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Electric atmosphere in Dublin today for our local and European candidate launch 🗳️

Vótáil Sinn Féin on June 7th

#tosaíonnathrúanois

🇵🇸 An incredible outpouring of solidarity and support for the people of Palestine in London today as hundreds of thousands are on the streets.

People in Ireland, Britain, Europe and across the world are standing together and speaking with one voice, and our message to the

We badly need the recruitment embargo to be lifted and to train & retain more healthcare professionals.

Sinn Féin would invest in additional bed capacity at UHL, bolster services at Ennis & Nenagh, invest in GP, primary & community care services to better support the hospitals.

Every day Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are in government, the worse Dublin’s homeless crisis gets – Cllr. Daithí Doolan

'There are 10,180 people homeless in Dublin. That's an increase of 1,415 over the last 12 months, including an increase of 543 children.'

vote.sinnfein.ie/every-day-fian…

Robert Capa capturing Republican soldiers crossing a frozen landscape during the Battle of Teruel which saw temperatures drop to below -20ºC. There were +15,000 casualties from frostbite among ill-equipped troops on both sides during the battle, one of the bloodiest of the war.

👉🏻 The Down team to take on Armagh in Clones tomorrow evening.

🎟️ ulster.gaa.ie/tickets

Best of luck to management & players 🔴⚫️🔴⚫️

Happy 130th Birthday to us🎈

On 27-28 April 1894 the founding conference was held at the Trades Hall in Capel St., Dublin.

119 delegates attended representing 66 Irish unions, branches and trades councils.

38 motions were debated & voted on. The report can be viewed National Library of Ireland

Nelson Mandela's grandson speaks of the Dunnes Stores workers boycott of S African goods and how it reverberated with the apartheid movement there

Join us for a screening of 'Blood Fruit' and hear from Mary Manning herself at this year's #JCF2024 May 9 - 12

eventbrite.ie/e/workers-powe…

13,866 people homeless - another grim record reached by this government.

This figure includes families, children and older people, all failed by the state.

We need an emergency response to this crisis, and that will only come with a change of government. Eoin Ó Broin Cllr. Daithí Doolan