Labour Party

Standing on public sector #pickets today across #Dublin with @labour.ie reps - in #solidarity with strikers. Gov must reach out to unions to ensure #FairPay now!

Public sector workers take to the picket line on Wednesday. Please respect the picket line. Government needs to respect public servants and start pay talks immediately.

This poster was due to go up in Dublin - but it was refused by some advertisers as it’s too “politically sensitive”. We may have been censored. We won’t be silenced. Repost this, send it around & spread the word. Go to aodhan.ie/act to sign our petition to SCRAP the EU-Israel trade agreement.

At a time of record homelessness, Government cut the funding allocated to homelessness in the Budget. You couldn’t make it up. #Budget2027

🌹Tomorrow, Labour colleagues are bringing a motion to the Dáil on the growing digital divide and the hidden costs of going back to school. 📚A relationship with school should be built on education. Not fees. No family should be pushed into debt just to get their child ready for the classroom.

Ivana Bacik: It's time that religious institutions paid their dues and were held to account for historical child abuse... jrnl.ie/7079116

Delighted to be in #Galway last night to attend launch of #GalwayInternationalArtsFestival 2026. Great to be there with our @labour.ie Councillors. Wonderful speech from Mayor Helen Ogbu !

Watch this if you’re wondering how I’ll vote today on a ban on alumina exports to #Russia ⬆️ Standing with #Ukraine cannot be empty words. No fuelling Putin’s war machine through #AughinishAlumina 🇺🇦

Very disappointed to see Gov winning the Dáil vote tonight on my #Redress Bill - this means further progress on the Bill is delayed for 6 months. Vitally important we get this Bill passed - to ensure justice for survivors of institutional child sex abuse. #FairShareForSurvivors

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❗️Drug use is a HEALTH issue, not a criminal one! ➡️ The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Drugs Use has just published a report recommending the decriminalisation of drugs for personal use. ❗️We can’t let the government off on this, we have to keep pushing

Government is failing victims of domestic violence as the refuge crisis deepens.⁠ ⁠ It is deeply alarming that almost 1,900 women were turned away from domestic violence services over a six month period. Behind every one of these figures is a woman seeking safety. ⁠ ⁠ 🔗 labour.ie/news/2026/06...

Paid leave for pregnancy loss “does not go far enough,” says @labour.ie dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/... #PLRG_PLACESproject

10% of Ireland’s homeless population lives here on Gardiner Street & the leader of the @socialistsanddemocrats.eu has now seen it firsthand. We need to put these human stories at the heart of Ireland’s EU presidency & deliver urgent European action on #homelessness and affordable #housing.

At last! 5 long years since Labour bill started in the Seanad, passed all stages and moved to the Dáil. Thinking of all those women over the years who had to suffer on the double with no access to compassionate leave. www.independent.ie/irish-news/w...

Welcome to Dublin @iratxegarper.bsky.social, President of the @socialistsanddemocrats.eu 🇪🇺🇮🇪 With Ireland’s EU presidency kicking off next week, I showed her the real challenges Dublin faces in #housing, workers’ rights & cost of living. We are working to ensure Europe delivers for working people.

What a knee jerk, anti evidence, disingenuous response👇 161 recommendations, 134 pages, hundreds of hours of committee hearings & yet Minister dismisses key recommendation just a day after publication And mischaracterises depenalisation as legalisation www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

We cannot appeal to the morality of religious orders to pay their share of redress to survivors of institutional piece. Read my Op-Ed in @thejournal.ie today ahead of the debate on our @labour.ie Bill to compel institutions to pay redress this week in the Dáil. www.thejournal.ie/readme/catho...

Powerful report on how victims of abuse in #Dunderrow have been failed by the state. We need justice for survivors. I call on Gov to support my #Redress Bill this Thursday in the Dáil - to ensure accountability for those responsible for abuse in both church & state authorities.

📺Speaking on This Week in Politics, we discussed Aughinish Alumina and Ireland's continued exports to Russia. 🇺🇦Ukraine must win. Russia must lose. Ireland and the EU must ensure that our trade and industrial policies do not weaken our support for Ukraine or strengthen Putin's ability to wage war.

Fine Gael have claimed Ireland has been overwhelmed by migration. Playing the immigrant card to deflect Government failures in housing and the cost of living is factually incorrect & lowest common denominator politics. 📻 Listen to my take on Newstalk with Claire Byrne this morning.

Good luck to all the #LeavingCert and #JuniorCert students starting exams today!

A pleasure to visit @labour.ie Mayor of Waterford Seamus Ryan, Deputy Mayor John Pratt and Cllr. Thomas Phelan in Waterford this week.

Important to bring my @socialistsanddemocrats.eu colleague Irene Tinagli (chair of the European Parliament's Committee on the Housing Crisis) to Oliver Bond Flats today. This is why it matters. Housing isn't an abstract policy debate. It's people's lives.

Delighted to give the keynote address at today’s powerful #BlackandIrish #APNI conference - well done to all!

I spoke to @newstalkfm.bsky.social this morning about the European Parliament Housing Committee's mission to Dublin this week. I am both proud and ashamed to welcome my European colleagues to my city - Proud of Dublin and its people. Ashamed that so many families are being failed by the system.

📍First stop on the EU Housing Committee Mission to Dublin: Focus Ireland. ❗️What we need: more social housing, more affordable homes, and the long-term public investment required to ensure genuine housing security for everyone.

Polls are now open! And we have two amazing #Labour candidates In #GalwayWest - vote Number 1 #HelenOgbu In #DublinCentral - vote Number 1 #RuthO’Dea #VoteLeftTransferLeft

#Poverty is a political choice. It must be ended. It is that simple. The EU Anti-Poverty Strategy is a a necessary first step, but it is just that. We need proper investment and we need concrete action if we are to eradicate poverty. 🎥 My speech in the chamber of the European Parliament today.

Great to be out canvassing over recent evenings with our brilliant #DublinCentral @labour.ie candidate Ruth O’Dea - and with local TD @mariesherlock.bsky.social !

Dublin Central, please give Ruth O’Dea your No. 1 this Friday! #byelection #dublincentral

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It was wonderful to meet a good friend - and national icon - while out canvassing in Galway on Friday with the amazing #HelenOgbu #MakeHistory #GaillimhOgbu

Deeply concerning to see Irish citizens detained. We need effective sanctions against #Israel & urgent passage of the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill

An immensely positive reception over recent days out canvassing with the amazing #HelenOgbu & all the great @labour.ie team in #GalwayWest We can do this! #MakeHistory #GaillimhOgbu

Bertie Ahern's comments are disgraceful and he should apologise. But we also must take a look around the Dáil chamber. There is not one black or African voice in the Dáil that has the real, lived experience of racism. We want to change that on 22 May, and put Cllr. Helen Ogbu in the Dáil.

Tánaiste fails to condemn Ahern’s remarks as racist - @ivanabacik.bsky.social "There is no African voice in the Dáil who can testify about the direct experience of racism. I hope that this changes after the Galway West by-election with the election of Cllr. Helen Ogbu.” labour.ie/news/2026/05...

I welcome the #EU sanctions against #Israel for settler violence in the West Bank, but it’s not enough. We need to end the EU-Israel #AssociationAgreement and isolate Israel on every level. #freepalestine 🇵🇸

Very disappointed to see this significant #SyngeStreet building up for sale commercially. For some months I have been engaging with all involved to get Dept of Education to acquire it for expansion of local schools. www.irishtimes.com/property/com...

A free vote is a cop out! The recommendations of the review are clear and three years old.

🗣️ “They're not unreasonable people. Bring everybody to the table and let's look at this again,” says George Lawlor TD, Labour. #TonightVMTV

Solidarity with striking workers today from the National Ambulance Service. The Minister for Health must urgently intervene and implement the recommendations of the independent roles and responsibilities review from 2020. These workers go above and beyond and deserve decent pay & conditions.

Ireland’s Assessment of Need system is failing children + their families. Four mothers presented a petition in the EU Parliament & together we secured key action: This petition was passed & referred for further scrutiny. Direct letters to the Irish Govt on the violations of EU law.

Helen Ogbu is the only left candidate who can win. Helen Ogbu can make history. We have two weeks 🌹✊ It has to be Helen. #GaillimhOgbu

Today, the EU Parliament backed the petition of these parents. I have learned so much from their courage & their fight for their children over the past 2 days. They should never have had to come to Brussels, but they did. Now the Irish Government must act. #disabilityrights #disabilityawareness

Powerful voices on RTÉ's Morning Ireland today with Ali Feild and Jane Mckenna speaking out on the systemic failure of the Assessment of Need process in Ireland. The time for action is now. Listen from Minute 24-29: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Lots of great canvassing over the last few days with our brilliant @labour.ie Bye-Election candidates - Cllr Helen Ogbu #GalwayWest Ruth O’Dea #DublinCentral

👉️The gaps between the have lots and have nots is widening under this Govt. PAYE workers need a break. 🗣️Tomorrow the Dáil debates Labour's mini-Budget proposals to provide immediate relief to families. 📻️Our finance spox @gednashtd.bsky.social will join the News at One to discuss this lunchtime.

Cyra. Jack. James. Isaac. Emmy. All children deserving of an assessment of needs to get the support they are entitled to. Their parents have fought for years & now @labour.ie is bringing their fight to Europe. Sign the petition @ the link in my bio! #disabilityrights #disabilityawareness

Honoured to be hosting these inspiring families in the European Parliament this Wednesday as we bring the assessment of needs campaign to Europe. The Irish Govt has failed these children & thousands of others. It’s not good enough. Read more here: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...