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⚠️ The discovery of multiple suspect devices in west Dublin has proven alarming and disturbing to working people and communities, according to @DavidGardinerWP, Workers’ Party representative in Palmerstown-Fonthill. Gardiner said: “The first suspect device was discovered yesterday evening near the bus terminal at Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, while two more were found earlier today near Cherry Orchard Hospital.” “These occurrences have proven alarming and disturbing, with people living and working locally being put at potential risk. Although there is nothing to suggest that the two incidents are linked, the fact that both occurred so close together and in such a short space of time is a contributing factor to the level of distress caused.” “Fortunately, both cases passed off without major incident, with bomb disposal experts from the Defence Forces, as well as Dublin Fire Brigade and Gardaí, in attendance. The emergency responders deserve our thanks for their work in dealing with the issues.” “I would urge anybody with information on either incident to get in touch with Gardaí.”

🇮🇪🤝🏻🇨🇺 Join Cuba Support Group Ireland this Saturday at 1pm outside the U.S. Embassy in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 to protest the escalation of imperialist American hostility towards Cuba. Cuba is a small island nation attempting to pursue independence, socialism, and sovereignty, despite the meddling of a much larger and imperialist neighbour intent on domination. It is only natural, then, that the Irish working class stand in solidarity with the resilient Cuban people. Bígí linn!

☘️ 🇮🇪 Lá Fhéile Pádraig faoi mhaise do lucht oibre na hÉireann, do deoraíthe na hÉireann, agus do lucht oibre an domhain, ó Pháirtí na nOibrithe/Cumainn Phoblachtacha Pháirtí na nOibrithe. Wishing a Happy St. Patrick’s Day to the Irish working class, the Irish diaspora, and the international working class, from the Workers’ Party/Workers’ Party Republican Clubs. Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen articulated the fundamental basis of Irish republican politics, echoing the three-leafed shamrock of Ireland with their anti-sectarian principle of the unity of Catholic, Protestant, and Dissenter, seeking to substitute these denominations “with the common name of Irishman.” It is worth remembering that, as well as unity and independence, Irish republicanism has always concerned itself with building a better society by and for the Irish people; from Theobald Wolfe Tone and his reliance upon “the men of no property,” to Henry Joy McCracken's statement that “the rich always betray the poor,” through to James Connolly's declaration in 1916 that “the Irish upon whom the future depends" is not "the rack-renting, slum-owning landlord," nor "the sweating, profit-grinding capitalist ... but the Irish working class.” We also proudly recognise the internationalist nature of our ideology, evident from the time of Wolfe Tone through to the modern day, and send our solidarity to the brave and resilient people of Palestine and Cuba. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all who labour and struggle, both in Ireland and abroad. “The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour.” — James Connolly

⛽️🚅⚡️ In fuel, transport, and energy, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil expect the Irish working class to shoulder the burdens of the shambolic economy that they have built. Petrol is crossing €2 a litre. The cause is a conflict in the Middle East which Ireland had no hand in starting and has no power to end. Approximately one-fifth of the world's oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz, now effectively closed. This comes on top of years of elevated energy costs driven by the war in the Ukraine. The government has offered spin and sympathy while quietly pocketing the increased tax take. The Chief Executive of Fuels for Ireland put it plainly: Ireland is a price taker. We are too small to affect international markets. That is their philosophy: accept your lot. These crises land hardest on workers already pushed to the edges by the housing crisis. Almost half of all commuters travel 30 kilometres or more each way, more than double the figure at the last census, because they cannot afford to live near their work. Dublin was ranked the third most congested city in the world in 2025. Many commuters have no alternative to the car. Many of them could work from home, and the pandemic proved it, yet the right to do so does not exist in law, and the government will not create it. Workers in roles that can be done remotely must have a legal right to do so. The state must invest in rail to make life outside Dublin viable — but investment must mean real improvement in public transport. The current approach is all stick and no carrot: planned congestion charges and parking restrictions without the infrastructure to give people an alternative. This is not the 19th century, there shouldn't be this difference between life in a town and the country. The answer to energy dependency is public ownership and nuclear power. The 1999 ban on nuclear energy was a political decision made in a different era. Modern small modular reactors are safer and scalable to a small island economy. France generates over 70% of its electricity from nuclear power and has among the lowest prices and emissions in Europe — and President Macron has recently reaffirmed his commitment to expanding that capacity. Finland has just brought the most powerful nuclear reactor in Europe online. Across the continent, the direction of travel is clear: even the European Commission has acknowledged that Germany's decision to shut down its reactors was a mistake. Czechia, in recent years, has brought new reactor builds online. To be left behind this emerging consensus would be an act of deliberate self-harm. State-owned nuclear capacity, combined with our wind resources under public ownership, could make Ireland take great strides towards energy independence and break our dependence on fossil fuels. Renewable energy alone saved this country €6.7 billion over the past four years. Public ownership of our energy is not a radical demand. It is common sense. The current government will not deliver any of this. Three companies now pay almost half of the state's corporation tax. That is the economy that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have built. It requires the approval of Washington and the obedience of Brussels. EU state aid rules are routinely bent for larger member states when it suits them, yet Ireland is expected to accept constraints on public ownership and industrial policy in the name of the single market. Ireland is an island and we need to act like one; sovereign in energy, more self-sufficient, and with strategic industries in public hands. The great only appear great because we are on our knees: let us arise!

🏟❌️ Attempts to rezone the Coldcut Club in north Clondalkin will only benefit developers and landlords at the expense of west Dublin communities, according to @DavidGardinerWP, Workers’ Party representative for Palmerstown-Fonthill. Gardiner said: “The Coldcut Club represents an important sporting resource for the people of North Clondalkin, Palmerstown, and neighbouring areas in this part of Dublin. Rather than aiming to secure and expand it, South Dublin County Council is attempting to rezone part of the site from Open Space to Residential.” “The land in question is the old GAA pitch beside Harelawn. Rather than doing away with it, this pitch should be redeveloped and brought back into use. A running track and athletics area could also be installed here. There are countless clubs across various sports codes in our communities who would benefit from this. As Open Space, it could also facilitate a community centre and allotments. Failure to do so today, given the ongoing expansion of Dublin to the very edge of the county borders, leaves us with little scope to do so in the future.” “If rezoned, private developers and landlords will profit at the expense of communities. At this stage of the housing crisis, nobody should be under the illusion that the private market will provide high-quality housing that is genuinely affordable to working people. The profiteers are not concerned with building thriving communities or the facilities and infrastructure necessary to support them. In fact, as this rezoning attempt shows, they are perfectly happy to take away those resources as they laugh all the way to the bank.”

⚖️ Although the collapse of the case against rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, better known as Mo Chara of Kneecap, is to be welcomed, the fact that the British government had a case at all shows that serious issues remain concerning the right to freedom of expression, as well as with the increasingly hostile environment faced by artists and activists who speak out on particular political issues. From the beginning, the prosecution appeared less about justice and more about sending a message. By attempting to pursue terrorism charges against a musician for political expression, the authorities risked setting a dangerous precedent. Art has always been a space where political ideas, dissent, and uncomfortable truths are expressed. Musicians, writers, and artists throughout history have challenged the establishment, criticised governments, and spoken in solidarity with oppressed people around the world. To treat that kind of expression as criminal or suspicious fundamentally undermines the democratic principle that political speech should be protected rather than punished. The collapse of the case highlights how unsustainable the legal argument ultimately was, but the damage caused by such attempts at prosecution cannot be ignored. When artists and activists find themselves facing terrorism charges in circumstances that later prove legally baseless, the effect goes far beyond any individual. It sends a chilling message to others: speak out, and you may face the same treatment.

🏚 Housing minister James Browne’s attendance at MIPIM 2026 in Cannes is a shocking display of governmental complicity in the commodification of Irish housing. While working families struggle to find a place to live, weighed down by soaring rents and a chronic housing shortage, the minister is in France parading Ireland as an “investment destination” for vulture funds and international property speculators. MIPIM, the so-called “Davos of real estate,” is not a forum for solving the housing crisis; it is a playground for global capital to profit from human need. Browne’s keynote, boasting that Ireland is “open for business” in residential development, is a cynical green light to predators to extract maximum rent from tenants, secure in the knowledge that the state will continue subsidising private profiteering. This government’s solution to the housing emergency is not to build public housing; it is to hand over the keys to vultures while Irish families face eviction, insecurity, and desperation. The Minister’s disregard for the material conditions on the streets of Dublin, Cork, and every urban centre on this island highlights the moral bankruptcy of a state that prioritises capital over working people. The Workers’ Party of Ireland condemns this blatant exploitation. Housing is a human right, not a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder. Investment conferences like MIPIM do nothing to build homes for working families; they entrench inequality and inflate rents. Real solutions, such as public housing on public land, protections for tenants, and an end to the exploitation of housing needs are ignored while ministers celebrate deals with vulture funds. We call on the government to stop rolling out the red carpet for profiteers. Stop treating homes as financial assets. Prioritise the people of Ireland, not global investors. The housing crisis is a political crisis, and until the state acts decisively to reclaim housing for the working class, the minister’s trips abroad represent a scandalous betrayal of the Irish people.

💡✅️ Following my reporting of the issue, South Dublin County Council have replaced a faulty street light on Palmers Road in #Palmerstown Manor. In the roughly 15 months that the council took to resolve the issue, numerous residents had raised health and safety issues with...

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🍞🌹✊🏻 International Women’s Day did not begin as a celebration. It was not created for corporate branding, discount codes, or polite panel discussions. It was born from working class struggle, socialist organising and women demanding political and economic power. The Workers’ Party has produced a pamphlet, entitled International Women’s Day 2026: Bread, Roses, and Unfinished Revolution, to remember this legacy, the women involved in it, and to remind ourselves of the issues which remain unresolved for working class women. 🔗 You can read and download the pamphlet at the link below.

✊🏻🚩🇮🇪 #OnThisDay in 1934, Seán Garland, socialist republican revolutionary, was born. Garland, a working class boy from a Dublin tenement, was a pivotal figure in the turn of the republican movement towards social agitation and class politics. To commemorate Seán, we are resharing a pamphlet put together a number of years ago, which includes both political and personal anecdotes from Seán’s family, friends, and comrades. Ní bheith a leithéid ann arís. 🔗 workersparty.ie/sean-garland-9…

✊🏻🚩🇮🇪 Our 2026 Belfast Easter Rising commemoration takes place on Saturday, 4th April, at 1.30pm in Milltown Cemetery, as we remember the brave men and women of 1916 as well as our deceased comrades. Bígí linn!

✊🏻🚩🇮🇪 Workers' Party members joined a demonstration, organised by Forward Ireland, outside Dublin City Hall yesterday evening, which successfully called on councillors to back a motion to save the Triple Lock. Gerry Rooney, Workers' Party representative in Meath East and former General Secretary of PDFORRA, spoke at the rally. 🪖🔒 Protect the Triple Lock to save Irish neutrality!

The latest American attack on a sovereign country, in this case Iran, is the culmination of a decades-long strategy to bring the Middle East under complete subordination, both as an essential plank of Israeli strategy and a precursor to tightening the noose on Russia and China. It illustrates that the principal contradiction facing the world is the increasingly aggressive imperialist strategy of the USA, accompanied by their Israeli partners, as it departs from any pretence of leading a world order based on mutual exchange, liberty, or development. As the economic supremacy that both enabled and characterised western supremacy has been whittled away due to both the exigencies of financial capitalism and the rise of Chinese communist production, the resort to overt imperialist domination has grown all the more necessary. In fact it is the attempts to forge a distinct national path to development outside the control of Washington that is the key sin committed by states as varied as China, Cuba, Iran, Libya, Russia, Syria, and Venezuela. These states varied in their structure and ideology; some communist and atheist, others nationalist and religious. But it is their temerity in not bending the knee to Tel Aviv and Washington that puts them in the crosshairs for regime change by western imperialism. Of these, only China and Russia appear to have the scale capable of resisting on a technological, economic, and cultural level - and even Russia is under considerable pressure. The latest and to date most serious aggression against Iran is the final piece in weakening all potential rivals to American-Israeli dominance of the Middle East. The 2003 invasion of Iraq signalled and, indeed, openly announced a strategy to bring down all states that did not submit. Thus, by 2026, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, and Syria had largely fallen to the western onslaught, often aided by local proxies such as Al Qaeda in Syria. Iran stood as the largest remaining recalcitrant nation in the Middle East and even it, or fractions of its elite, suffered from a naiveté that Israel-America would be satisfied with a pragmatic deal. Hence their repeated offers regarding its nuclear industry. But the Empire does not want a deal; it demands submission. This is why it has no compunction about attacking and killing Iran's or Hizbollah's leadership at the very moment they’re meeting to discuss a compromise, a level of barbarity that is only acceptable to a heavily indoctrinated populace. The fall of the Iranian state under the attacks of Israel-America will not lead to an environment in which the prospects for building working class power are enhanced. There would be at best an authoritarian regime subservient to Tel Aviv and quite probably prolonged chaos and civil war that in no way fosters an environment in which socialist-labour movement can advance. The primary issue, then, is not the nature of the state in Iran (or Russia or Cuba) but the destruction wrought by imperialism on any country attempting to chart an independent course of development. Ideally the resistance to this imperialism would be led by communist movements, as it was in Vietnam and Korea, but this is not a choice that can be arbitrarily taken. Each country must work with the anti-imperialist forces that have historically come to the fore. The empire would of course welcome a subservient government in Tehran that can facilitate the systematic looting of the country, as occurred in Russia in the 1990s, but a state of fragmentation and chaos will more than suffice for their purposes. The result in either case would be a weaker pole standing outside the hegemony of Israel-America. In the medium term this narrows the room to manoeuvre for Russia and China, especially as the route into Central Asia is opened up for western interference. 🔗 Read the full statement at workersparty.ie/sovereignty-or…

✊🏻🚩🇮🇪 A reminder that this takes place outside Dublin's City Hall this evening. Bígí linn!

🪖🔒 Dublin City councillors are set to debate and vote on the Triple Lock this Monday. Bígí linn outside City Hall from 5pm to 7pm to show that Dublin supports Irish neutrality.

@workersparty These overpaid quislings deserve NO respect. Make them pay for betraying the Irish people who support #IrishNeutrality by 71% and dislike the NATO-EU-Israel alliance Maybe new series of 'Traitors' so our kids would know how they ended up dying for #NATO -and who betrayed them.

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🪖📃 The Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 is the latest attempt by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and their lackeys to dismantle Irish neutrality. Abandoning the requirement that the Defence Forces may only engage in missions approved by the UN would move Ireland away from genuine peacekeeping that enjoys a mandate and a basis in international law. This would be swapped for greater integration with EU and NATO military structures; the goal of whose missions have largely been to serve neo-colonial and U.S. interests respectively. From both opinion polling and past referendums, it is clear to see that the Irish people do not wish to see this happen. The Workers’ Party has made a submission on the legislation which can be read in full at the link below. Additionally, for further context, you can find our 2021 submission to the Commission Defence Forces attached also.

⚛️ 🗣 A recent Red C poll shows increasing support among the public for building nuclear power, and growing scepticism about the government’s plans for transition to renewable energy. This should come as little surprise. For years, we have heard grandiose promises about renewables, but in reality, all we have seen is ever-increasing energy prices, frequent blackouts, and carbon emissions continuing to rise. It’s time for the government to get behind the only real solution and provide cheap nuclear energy for working people. As explained in our nuclear energy policy paper, 100% renewable energy is not viable in Ireland, and the state’s attempts to make it possible rely on reducing consumption through price hikes and carbon taxes. Nuclear energy is the only option available that can allow us to eliminate fossil fuels from the Irish power grid, and provide reliable, cheap electricity.  Support for nuclear energy among the public has risen consistently, as people become better informed and learn that it is among the safest options available and, in the long-term, also the cheapest. As the poll makes clear, the real opposition to nuclear energy in Ireland is not from the public, but from governments who are not willing to make that long-term investment in publicly owned energy infrastructure needed to solve both our climate and cost-of-living crises. 🔗 Read our policy paper, Let’s Get Real: A Plan For Nuclear Power In Ireland, at workersparty.ie/nuclear-power-…