Joe Higgins TD

Today’s report that the Government has approved spending €600 million on the installation of domestic water meters in every home in the country shows the utter hypocrisy in their approach to water supply and water charges. The clear intention is to lash another punitive tax on working people. Meanwhile – incredibly – in many local [...]

At a Press Conference in Dublin today, Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP and senior trade union activists called for all out resistance to the plan by the Fianna Fáil/Green Party government to savage the wages of public service workers Councillor Terry Kelleher, a member of the CPSU Executive Committee said: “Low paid CPSU members (who [...]

With the benefit of hindsight, we can now see that the abuse horror that engulfed several generations of Irish children at the hands of clerics of the Catholic Church was inevitable because of the powerful factors that were in play. Central to this was the very special position which the Catholic Church in Ireland came [...]

We now have a right wing National Government in all but name as Fine Gael and the Labour Party gang up with Fianna Fail and the Green Party to hammer the wages of low and middle income public sector workers. With breathtaking arrogance, all the establishment parties in the Dail have now shifted the burden [...]

A big issue over the last weeks has been the recent Commission findings exposing the scale of child abuse in the Dublin Diocese and the criminal conspiracy to cover it up. Here Joe Higgins’ party colleague, Councillor Clare Daly discusses the issue, arguing the scandal underlines the need for a total separation of Church and [...]

Reacting to ICTU’s calling off of tomorrow’s day of industrial action, here Joe Higgins calls on rank and fule union members to reject the sell out deal, and to organise to replace the weak union leadership with on who will seriously fight government policy. The union leaders had no mandate from their memberships to offer [...]