Joe Higgins TD

By Joe Higgins: from The Socialist, January 2009 The recent death of Tony Gregory was greeted with great sadness throughout the country. He had been a Dail Deputy for Dublin North Central for 27 years and, aged just 61, died a little over a year after being diagnosed with cancer. From the time I was [...]

The savage axing of 1,900 jobs by the Dell Corporation in Limerick was widely covered in the media but the restrained tone of that coverage was quite remarkable. It was as if a family death was being reported. There was talk of ‘sadness’ and ‘regret’ at the announcement and much ‘sympathy’ for the affected workers. [...]

By Joe Higgins: from The Daily Mail. January 21, 2009 It’s rather amusing to watch senior members of the political establishment together with sections of the media heap abuse on the head of Mr Sean Fitzpatrick the former chief of Anglo Irish Bank which was nationalised yesterday. They are desperate to give the impression that [...]

In this video, Socialist Party public representatives strongly condemn the use of water shortages around the country arising from the weather crisis as naked propaganda for the reinstatement of household water charges and the installation of metering. The Socialist Party intervention came in the wake of calls by Chambers Ireland, among others, for the speeding [...]

Video from RTE of clips from Joe’s time in the Dail. Share on bebo Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tumblr it Tweet about it Print for later Tell a friend

By Joe Higgins: from The Daily Mail, January 7, 2009 Since December 27th the Israeli Defence Forces have killed at least 560 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly civilians. Hamas rockets have killed 4 Israeli civilians. In much of the media this is called a war. It should be called a massacre. On new Year’s Day the [...]