mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Eco-socialist TD for People Before Profit in Dublin South West.
Member of RISE / Rupture Media contributor
This should be all over the news, but nobody even seems to know about it.
The Irish government is using its Presidency of the European Council to push for Big Tech's profits to take precedence over the right to data protection.
The use of personal data “in the context of AI” would automatically be lawful in their proposal.
Have a listen to the Tánaiste completely sidestep the question.
The 'Help to Buy' Scheme is a Help to Profit scheme for developers.
The lobbyist group CIF didn't even hide why they were pushing for it.
Our landlord government represents those who profit off of people's housing misery.
The Garvaghy Road community have every right to be delighted.
They stood up to the sectarian Orange Order, the Parades Commission, the courts and the PSNI and they won.
People power stopped a return to sectarian violence while the institutions utterly failed.
Why should workers and public sector broadcasting be punished for a tantrum of Patrick O'Donovan?
Great to see scenes of joy from Drumcree as people learn permission for the triumphalist Orange Order march has been revoked!
Well done to this incredible community. It was an honour to stand with you.
People power held the line against the Orange Order and sectarianism.
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A lot of the talk around the inheritance tax is a red herring for allowing multi-millionaires and billionaires to pass on enormous amounts of wealth to the next generation.
While ordinary people struggle to make ends meet and put food on the table for their children, they will be worse off after this years' budget.
Only by ordinary people standing together and through workers' action will we get rid of this government for the rich.
Fair play Martin!
A powerful finish to Martin Leahy's 200 week long protest outside the Dáil.
Everyone should have a home - a message more important than ever.
It's a political choice to make people homeless, while tens of thousands of properties sit vacant.
We have to build a movement to fight for housing as a basic human right!
The threat to use Defence Forces against protesters is extremely worrying. It should be withdrawn.
People have a right to protest without the army being sent against them.
This will create a dangerous precedent that will be used against other protesters in future.
The by-elections are now officially on.
We kicked off our campaign in Dublin Central for Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin with a packed gig.
We deserve a city and country where people can live, not just exist. Bread and roses too!
Volunteer today at eoc.ie.
Please support this fundraising concert in the Maldron Hotel in Tallaght, in aid of Mellon Educate!
https://tickento.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173687024
Workers' power is going to be on display on Wednesday.
See you on the picket lines!
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/unions-reject-derogation-bid-as-strike-threat-leaves-dail-and-seanad-facing-shutdown-on-wednesday/a/162843766.html
Climate action should mean holding the biggest polluters and the wealthiest responsible, not squeezing working people.
It should and could mean improving people's lives, making things easier and cheaper.
But our government is abandoning any pretense that they planned to tackle the climate crisis, while they sell out an ever-increasing amount of our electricity, water, and people's data to data centres & AI.
"It's workers who create wealth in this country, that's the basis of our economy... and that's who should be prioritised in this budget, as opposed to prioritising the wealthiest in the vague hope that somehow it's gunna benefit the rest of us!"
We know who #Budget27 benefits and it's not ordinary people.
FF, FG, Lowry lackeys, Independent Ireland, and Aontú pushing through massive tax breaks for the very richest in our society.
Another one of our community meetings on Monday night in Whitechurch organising resistance to the Council rent hikes.
Another woman present has already received her massive rent increase of more than 30%. We can stop them with people power.
The government is abandoning any pretense that they planned to tackle the climate crisis, while they sell out an ever-increasing amount of our electricity, water, and people's data to data centres & AI.
Climate action should mean holding the biggest polluters and the wealthiest responsible, not squeezing working people.
It should and could mean improving people's lives.
A new arms race.
A massive increase in money to go to armaments industry during a cost of living crisis.
We have to save the triple lock and Irish neutrality.
We can't let FF, FG, and their Lowry lackeys tie ourselves even closer the US & NATO by scrapping the triple lock.
We have to resist them.
