Ireland
Ireland: Energy workers plan strikes
Workers at the Electricity Supply Board are currently threatening strike action against potential privatisation.
The main reason for the action is the government-backed plans for the distribution of electricity, selling the network to Eirgrid, a state-owned private limited company, which workers see as a step towards privatisation and a loss of the rights held by state employees.
Ireland: Nurses' rolling strikes continue
Nurses across Ireland are taking strike action to support their claim for a 10% pay rise and a 35 hour week.
The actions, organised by the INO (Irish Nurses organisation) and the PNA (Psychiatric Nurses Organisation) which have a total of over 40000 members, have had two main elements so far. A well-observed work-to rule and a series of one-hour stoppages over the last three weeks in 11 institutions.
Ireland: Domino's drivers on strike
Workers at the Tallaght branch of Domino's Pizza went on strike Friday night over wages.
Around 50 drivers refused to work the evening shift on Friday from 5pm, they then picketed out workers at the Walkinstown branch from 8pm, persuading around seven drivers to come out despite management threats that they would sack any drivers who joined the strike. The picket ended at 9pm due to bad weather at which point drivers from both branches went home.
Ireland bus fare-free day, 2003
Article about Irish bus workers organising a fare free day on 18 July 2003, in which they allowed passengers to travel for free in protest against privatisation of the services.
Rossport Shell camp: Community under siege
Protests take place in Irish cities as state forces move in support of Shell.
Friday October the sixth saw protests in Galway, Cork, Belfast and at four locations in Dublin in response to the increased police presence at Shell’s refinery construction site in Mayo. At least two of the solidarity actions were visited by Special Branch. Several other protests have also taken place around the country in the last week.
Call for support as anti-Shell picket faces repression
Latest news from the struggle against Shell in the West of Ireland, as the state prepares to strike.
The month of September was the month Shell had chosen to re-take their refinery construction site in Ballinaboy, Mayo, in the west of Ireland. They failed.
The refinery has been shut down since July 2005 by pickets involving the local community and activists from Rossport Solidarity Camp.
1993-1996: The Dublin fight against water charges
A short history of the successful direct action campaign of non-payment which prevented the imposition of charges for water in Dublin, Ireland.
Winning the water war
1920: An uprising in Munster
A hidden history of sympathy strikes, socialism, workers' councils and revolution in a corner of rural Ireland.
When the red flag flew in Munster
Rail workers wildcat in Cork
Maintenance staff at Kent Station in Cork have been on strike since mid-day Tuesday.
The workers were asked to work replacement instead of maintenance rosters, which would normally entitle them to additional pay. They have recieved support from other Irish Rail workers, with pickets in place from 3pm Tuesday, and spokesmen from their employers saying disruption will continue "until further notice".
Dealing with the nightmare; Dublin Anti-Drugs Campaigns
A review of "Pushers Out: The inside story of Dublin’s anti-drugs movement" by Andre Lyder.
Walk five minutes from O’Connell St, Dublin’s main thoroughfare, or five minutes from Christ Church Cathedral, an important tourist attraction, and you will find yourself in a very different world from that depicted in the tourist brochures...
