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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
2 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) is encouraging young people in County Cork to make sure they are registered to vote, given that a General Election is just weeks away. If the election is held at the end of February, as widely expected, the deadline for... Read More
28 January 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance Councillor Mick Barry this morning slammed plans by Tesco to cut the pay of nearly 1,000 members of its Irish workforce by up to 6,500 euro per annum. This morning’s Irish Examiner explains that nearly 1000 staff on pre-1996 Tesco contract rates of 14.31 per... Read More
26 January 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance Councillor Mick Barry this morning said that it would be a betrayal both of workers’ rights and the interests of young people for the Labour Party to vote for the Technological Universities Bill currently being rushed through the Dail before the General Election is called.... Read More
21 January 2016, 9.25am By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Anti Austerity Alliance Councillor Mick Barry this morning said “years of Government cutbacks” to the health service are ultimately responsible for this morning’s decision to cancel non-urgent elective procedures at Cork University Hospital (CUH). Cllr Barry slammed Junior Health Minister Kathleen Lynch for standing over health cuts... Read More
