Canvassing 15/3/14

éirígí Local Election Candidate Ciaran Heaphey, and Canvass Team again received a very positive response on Saturday at the doorsteps in Kilmore. Several Hundred homes were canvassed with many issues discussed. If you would like to support or help out with the éirígí Ciaran Heaphey Election Campaign, please message us on this Facebook page.

First day of canvassing, Saturday 8th March.

éirígí 2014 Local Election Candidate Ciaran Heaphey & Canvass Team received a very positive response on Saturday at the doorsteps in Kilmore. Hundreds of homes were canvassed with many local issues discussed.

Ciarán Heaphey highlights savage cuts.

The present Fine Gael/Labour government bailed out corrupt Irish banks to the tune of billions of euro with Irish taxpayers money. The coalition government continues with the exact same toxic legacy of the previous Fianna Fáil government. 

Behind the spin and propaganda of the establishment parties and corporate media, the truth is that continued austerity measures are nothing more than a robbery, to pay for the rampant greed of bankers, developers and corrupt politicians. To date not one corrupt banker has been imprisoned. 

Hard to believe the so-called 'Labour Party' has been complicit in these savage policies on ordinary working people. 

Local government TDs such as Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Labour) and Terence Flanagan (Fine Gael) take home over €100,000 a year of taxpayers' money, while implementing the robbery of the Irish people with lies and spin. Former corrupt politicians like Bertie Ahern take home a pension of over €140,000 a year of taxpayers' money.

Some of these austerity/robbery measures include

·         Cuts in Medical Cards

·         Cuts in Social Welfare Payments to Under 25s

·         Cuts in Telephone Allowance for Senor Citizens 

·         Increases in both Electric and Gas Prices

·         Future Water Taxes

·         Forcing the Unemployed to work for €1 an hour in the “Jobs Bridge” Scam

·         Rising Housing Crisis

Speaking about these cuts, éirígí 2014 Local Election Candidate Ciarán Heaphey said: ''éirígí has a proven track record of highlighting and fighting these cuts in this community. We will continue to work with communities and groups in resisting these savage austerity measures, which amount to nothing more than a robbery of the Irish people, to pay for the corruption of the privileged few.”

If there is an issue in your community you wish to discuss or highlight please feel free to contact us on the contact details provided.

Information stall Saturday 2/3/14

éirígí Dublin Northeast activists were out in huge numbers yesterday with one team holding our regular information stall at the Northside shopping centre and another team of activists out in Harmonstown. 

The information stall at Northside went down very well with the activists receiving a very positive response by the public. The second team of éirígí activists also received a great response whilst delivering our latest Poblacht na nOibrithe to thousands of homes in Hamonstown. 

Speaking afterwards Ciarán Heaphey said: ''Saturday was a very successful day for us. It is brilliant to be getting such a positive reaction to our information stall from the public and also to be able to spread the socialist republican message through the Beaumount/Donaghmede area. 

Full support for airport workers !

éirígí Dublin Northeast representative Ciarán Heaphey has condemned the plot by the Fine Gael/Labour Government to break strike action at Dublin Airport by bringing in the 26-County army to replace striking workers.

SIPTU are currently in discussions over possible industrial action in a dispute over the pension plan at Aer Lingus and the Dublin Airport Authority. Workers at both companies are outraged at the proposed cuts to their pension benefits.

With other trade unions and the ICTU now supportive of the proposal to down tools, there is now a co-ordinated campaign amongst the various trade unions to bring the bosses to the table.

The government coalition has responded to this not by trying to help the affected workers but instead ordered the 26-County army to be in position ready to intervene if the airports shut down.

By saying they will remove the fire service from the airport the trade unions have sent a strong message that they are serious. Without a fire service on the ground at the airport it would have no option but to shut down. The possible closure has worried the coalition in Leinster House who have advised the 26-County military to be ready to operate fire engines in a tactic to defeat the strike even though the air corps' fire crews have not received the training to run a civilian airport.

Commenting on the situation éirígí's Ciarán Heaphey has said, “This is a foul but unsurprising tactic being used by the Fine Gael/Labour coalition. The fact that the Labour Party are involved in trying to smash industrial action by concerned workers shows how far they are now disconnected from the working class.”

Heaphey continued, “The most important thing here is that the concerns of the workers at Aer Lingus and the Dublin Airport Authority are addressed by management. There is also the worrying scenario if the 26-County army are placed into the airport during the dispute that they are not trained to the level needed for a civilian airport. I would like to take this chance to encourage the workers to keep up their fight for full pension benefits.”

Election Fundraiser, Football Five a side. 29th March Kilmore West Community Centre.

Poblacht na nOibrithe éirígí Dublin Northeast.

Our latest Poblacht na nOibrithe is now uploaded to the Irish election literature blog, massive thanks to them for uploading it. Follow the link below for a look.

http://irishelectionliterature.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/leaflet-from-ciaran-heaphey-eirigi-beaumont-donaghmede-2014-local-elections