The title of this video is ‘Joe Higgins tackles Government on Austerity Treaty’ All Dail proceeding were taken through Irish on the morning of Wednesday 7th March. Joe’s column this week covers the same topic if you require an English explanation of the debate. Deir cinnlínte i nuachtáin na maidne go bhfuil an Stát chun [...]
Comment: Belmayne residents victims of speculator’s greed
On March - 3 - 2012
It might be expected that when it is brought to the attention of the leader of this State that a group of citizens is being treated shabbily by public or private agencies, or both, with dire consequences for their lives and welfare, he would attempt to get to the heart of the issue and find [...]
Video: Government tries to silence allegation of Belmayne fire hazard cover-up
On February - 29 - 2012
Some months after the scandal of the fire hazard at Priory Hall, which is causing awful hardship to the innocent residents there, another fire hazard scandal is unfolding at Belmayne, which is also on the north Dublin fringe. Kitara developers have written to hundreds of apartment owners to tell them they might have to move [...]
CAHWT Press Statement: 92% still not paying home tax with one month to go
On February - 28 - 2012
Only 133,365 properties have registered and paid the household tax, amounting to only 8% registration with one month to go. The figures were revealed on Morning Ireland by the head of the household charge board. This confirms that mass non-registration of the tax is entirely possible. The CAHWT calls on householders to maintain the boycott [...]
Comment: Privatisations will only serve to deepen economic crisis
On February - 25 - 2012
The decision by the government to sell off €3 billion worth of state assets is arguably the most economically and socially criminal of the many criminal policies implemented in this State over the past three years in the interest of salvaging the financial system in Europe from the consequences of the speculative activities of its [...]
Video: Joe Higgins questions Taoiseach over visit of Chinese Vice-President
On February - 22 - 2012
Dr. Liu Xiaobo is in his third year of an 11 year sentence in China. His crime was to write a charter seeking democracy, freedom of speech and religion and an independent judiciary. Over Christmas, Chen Xi was sentenced to ten years in jail in south-west China for the crime of writing articles on the [...]
Comment: Labour’s shame at privatisation of bin service
On February - 20 - 2012
Since the privatisation of the household bin collection system within the functional area of Dublin City Council kicked in last month, it has been one shambolic controversy after another. The threat this week by Greyhound Waste, which was handed the service by Dublin City Council, that it would not collect the bins of up to [...]
