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Archive for August, 2009
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August 25, 2009MILLMOUNT WALLED TOWNS DAY
August 10, 2009 As part of National Heritage Week , and to mark Irish Walled Towns Day, Millmount Museum will be hosting a series of free events on Sunday August 23th from 1pm -6pm in the Millmount courtyard and complex.
Drogheda is one of just 12 towns in Ireland (north & south) celebrating its heritage as a walled town and a very interesting afternoon programme of traditional and world music, set dancing, sean nos dancing, folk theatre, falconry dispaly, craft demonstrations, kiddies fun games, book stall and food stalls have been arranged.
Millmount Museum and Martello Tower will be open free of charge and all of the craft units in the complex will be open.
Further Info from:
Liam Reilly, Millmount Museum, Drogheda.
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SOCIALIST PARTY PUBLIC CAMPAIGN
August 10, 2009Local Socialist Party members, including Drogheda Borough Councillor Frank Gallagher, distributed hundreds of leaflets to lunchtime shoppers in West Street on Saturday last (August 8th), as part of their campaign of opposition to a proposed introduction of a property tax and the re-introduction of water charges on domestic households.
The leaflet entitled, “Can’t Pay – Won’t Pay”, pointed to proposals from the Special Review Group on Public Service Pay & Numbers (An Bord Snip Nua) and the Commission on Taxation, to introduce a property tax of between 600-800 euro per year on an average family home and to re-introduce water charges on all domestic households.
The Socialist Party, in their leaflet, pledged to organise and launch ”a mass non-payment campaign of civil disobedience to defeat these taxes”.
Speaking after the protest local Socialist Party councilior, Frank Gallagher said that “it’s all very well for most of our public representatives and trade union leaders to say they are against these attacks on the living standards of ordinary working people, families, the unemployed and pensioners but the acid test of their sincerity will be whether they lead from the front and publicly advocate a mass no-pay fight back. In anticipation of the usual and predictable, pathetic response from both the country’s trade union leadership and the phoney Fine Gael-Labour parliamentary “opposition” the Socialist Party make no bones about our intention to organise a mass no-pay protest in the event of either a property tax or water tax being forced on the ordinary working people and their families”.
