Éirígí Béal Feirste spokesperson John McCusker has slammed the recent news of 760 job cuts at engineering firm FG Wilson. When added to a previously announced loss of 160 jobs, this takes the total to 920 – almost one-third of the company’s workforce in the Six Counties. The company also announced last week that it was
Cathaoirleach Éirígí, Brian Leeson, has slammed Enda Kenny’s decision to invite William and Kate Windsor to Ireland and reaffirmed the socialist republican party’s opposition to all British royal visits to Ireland. Leeson described the invitation as ‘an embarrassment’ designed to portray the relationship between Ireland and Britain as ‘normal’.
In a mixed judgment, the High Court in Britain on Monday [August 6] ruled that regulations through which the British government has created many of its ‘Workfare’ schemes are lawful but that the decision of the Department of Work and Pensions [DWP] to strip clients of benefits for six months for refusing to undertake compulsory work was unlawful.
