THANK YOU DROGHEDA NORTH

I’m very proud and priviliged to have been the subject of local and national political history by becoming the Socialist Party’s first ever elected representative  to the  Drogheda Borough Council, and the Socialist Party’s first ever elected public representative in provincial Ireland (outside of Dublin and Cork).

IRISH OPEN – Entertainment Events

Entertainment Events during the 3 Irish Open Golf Championship May 14th – 17th. 

Listing compiled and very kindly supplied by: LIAM REILLY, Millmount Museum & Martello Tower.

Thursday May 14th

THE NORTHSIDE RAILWAY STATION CON

The politically fashionable demand for a second (north) Drogheda railway station would, if it was conceded, add massively to peak rush-hour vehicular traffic on either the Newfoundwell or Ballymakenny Roads – depending where the mooted railhead was located.

THE RAZ REILLY SCANDAL

DROGHEDA BOROUGH COUNCIL  with the full support of every elected local Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Labour councillor, as well as local Fine Gael T.D. Fergus O’Dowd, will have spent a potential 2 million euro of public money in court costs and legal fees to force  59-year old fireman Patrick “Raz” Reilly to retire, by the time the council’s  Supreme Court appeal  against Raz’s (2008) watershed High Court victory is decided.

THE REAL ARTS FESTIVAL

 MILLMOUNT, Drogheda’s REAL centre of culture and heritage,  hosts it’s annual TRADITIONAL DAY (the REAL arts festival) on Sunday May 3rd from 12 noon to 6pm., with FREE ADMISSION.

THE MAY DAY STORY

The annual world-wide celebration of May Day (1st May) as an international workers and trade union festival was born out of the tragic events during a general strike Chicago back in 1886.

WHO CALLED IT FIRST?

The headline over former taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald’s thought-provoking, weekly colum in today’s Irish Times (Saturday April 25th) screamed “Reducing pay may attract a better class of politicians”.              

ELECTION FUNDRAISER – THANKS

The Table Quiz  and Raffle organised in support of the Socialist Party’s Local Election campaign in Drogheda, held  on Wednesday night (April 22nd),  was a huge success. A packed Sarsfield’s Lounge enjoyed a great evening  out and contributed very generously and significantly to our Election Campaign Fund.

10,000 Jobless by Christmas

Drogheda’s unemployment statistics are right on course to go above 10,000 by the end of this year.

A “CORPORATE WELFARE” BUDGET

Christmas came early this year for the country’s property speculators. Up to NINETY BILLION EURO EURO in auctioneers, land speculators and property developers debts are to be written off in a specially created “bad bank” (the brainchild of Fine Gael TD Richard Bruton ) which was adopted by the Fianna Fail – Green Party – Harney coalition government in today’s corporate welfare budget.