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21 November 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie 6723 young people in Cork have turned 18 since last year and will have right to vote The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) is encouraging young people in County Cork to make sure they are registered to vote before the deadline for inclusion on the electoral...
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AREA: CORK CITY,
AREA: EAST CORK,
AREA: NORTH CORK,
AREA: SOUTH CORK,
AREA: WEST CORK,
FIANNA FAIL,
FINE GAEL,
GREEN PARTY,
LABOUR,
NEWS,
NON PARTY,
POLITICS,
SINN FÉIN,
SOCIALIST PARTY,
WORKERS PARTY
12 October 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance TD Mick Barry this morning slammed yesterday’s Budget announcement that the national minimum wage will be set at a rate of 9.25 euro an hour next year – an increase of just 10 cent. He said: “Yesterday, one of the best paid Finance Ministers in...
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7 June 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Anti-Austerity Alliance TD for Cork-North Central, Mick Barry, has called for immediate rent controls ‘with teeth’ to be introduced as two UN experts raised concerns about the huge increase in homelessness in Cork. The UN experts also criticised the government for their lack of a response to their...
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19 May 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance TD Mick Barry this morning welcomed the climbdown by the Fine Gael-Independent minority Government on the issue of mandatory charging for green bins and said that it was a sign that this right-wing government is a weak government from the very start vulnerable to popular...
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16 May 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance TD Mick Barry this morning called for a complete reversal of cuts to school guidance counselling hours after a new report which shows the cuts have impacted most heavily on schools in working class communities. An independent audit by the Institute of Guidance counsellors shows...
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10 May 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance TD Mick Barry this morning said that the mild rent control measures introduced by the Fine Gael/Labour Government last year are not working and that far stronger rent control measures are needed now in the immediate short term. His comments came as a new report...
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26 April 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance TD for Cork North Central Mick Barry announced this morning that he will not take one penny from the 29,000 euro gratuity he is set to receive from Cork City Council and that he will instead use the money to establish a “solidarity fund” for...
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29 March 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance have chosen 27 year old financial services worker Fiona Ryan to replace Mick Barry TD as a councillor for the Cork City North Central ward on Cork City Council. Fiona Ryan will be put forward for co-option to the Council at tonight’s meeting of Cork...
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16 March 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance TD Mick Barry this morning slammed mass evictions being carried out by receiver Grant Thornton at the Eden estate in Blackrock, Cork. The newly-elected TD for Cork North Central said that greed and profiteering was driving people out of their homes and urged that people...
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15 February 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance candidate for Cork North Central Mick Barry this morning criticised the company which has refused to recognise the union chosen by the country’s 999 emergency service call centre workers to represent them. According to Cllr Mick Barry Conduit Global (the company to which BT Ireland...
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12 February 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Innishannon, Co Cork has joined a growing list of Cork towns that will have no election posters erected. The Innishannon Tidy Towns committee have asked all political parties and candidates to refrain from erecting posters within the village. The request is a voluntary one, but so far it’s...
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AREA: WEST CORK,
FIANNA FAIL,
FINE GAEL,
GREEN PARTY,
LABOUR,
NEWS,
NON PARTY,
POLITICS,
SINN FÉIN,
SOCIALIST PARTY,
WORKERS PARTY
8 February 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance candidate for Cork North Central Cllr Mick Barry this morning said that breaking news of fresh HSE recruitment curbs stand in stark contrast to Enda Kenny’s Fine Gael Ard Fheis promises of hiring thousands of new doctors and nurses if re-elected to Government. This morning’s...
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