NEWS

Boyle raises concerns over poor air quality in Cork

  Monday31 March 2014, Cork. GreenParty local election candidate for Cork, Dan Boyle, is seeking to raiseawareness of the poor air quality in Cork today. Speaking this morning, Boylesaid, “At 5pm yesterday the Environmental Protection Agency, through its air monitoring web site,showed Cork City to be the only area in the country experiencing poor airquality. […]

31st March 2014

Louth/East Meath Greens propose Michael McKeon as Drogheda Candidate

Monday 31 March 2014, Dublin. The Louth/East Meath Green Party Constituency Group haveproposed Michael McKeon as their candidate for Drogheda in the upcoming localelections. Michael, a proud Drogheda man who lives in Rosevale, hasbeen the Green Party candidate in previous local elections, and has been anactive campaigner on a range of environmental and local government […]

31st March 2014

Ryan calls on Labour to stop obstructing Directly Elected Mayor plebiscite

People of Dublin deserveopportunity to have their say on a mayor   Sunday30 March 2014, Dublin. Green Party Leader, Eamon Ryan, has today called oncouncillors in Fingal, eight of whom aremembers of the Labour Party, to support the holding of a plebiscite for aDirectly Elected Mayor (DEM) for Dublin. Dublin City councillors have alreadysupported the […]

30th March 2014

Converting Moneypoint to burning wood is neither sustainable or economic

  Thursday 27 March 2014, Dublin. The ‘RethinkPylons‘ group and BW Energy have today published a report on the potentialconversion of Moneypoint power plant to burn biomass rather than coal. Green Party Leader, Eamon Ryan, has set out some of thereasons why such a policy would be, “neither economically viable orenvironmentally sustainable.” There are five […]

27th March 2014

Cooney raises concerns over Dublin Port Company

  Thursday 27 March 2014, Dublin. Following the publication of the Dublin Port Company’sAlexandra Basin redevelopment project plan, Green Party local electioncandidate for Clontarf, Donna Cooney, has today commented, “Are the DublinPort Company now in danger of killing the goose that lays the golden egg? Oursuccess in attracting cruise liners into Dublin Bay is that […]

27th March 2014

Taoiseach mishandling the first major crisis of this Government

Minister Shatter will have to go but that will not bethe end of the affair   Wednesday 26 March 2014, Dublin. Speaking today, Green Party Leader, Eamon Ryan, said, “ThatMinister Alan Shatter has to go is a given, but what is centre stage now is theTaoiseach’s mishandling of this crisis. His actions are leading to […]

26th March 2014

Green Party claims Government dereliction of duty in regard to nuclear pollution threat from Hinkley Point

An Taisce appeal to be heard Thursday 27 March in High Court inLondon Wednesday 26 March 2014, Dublin. Louth Councillor and co-Chair of Nuclear Free LocalAuthorities, Mark Dearey, has accused the Minister for the Environment of adereliction of his duty to protect the Irish people in the event of a seriousnuclear accident, in regard to […]

26th March 2014

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New leadership needed to restore public trust inadministration of justice and lead creation of independent Garda inspectorate   Tuesday 25 March 2014, Dublin. Green Party local electioncandidate for the Castlenock ward, Spokesperson for Justice, and party Chair,Roderic O’Gorman, has today welcomed former Commissioner Callinan’s departureand called on Minister Alan Shatter to do likewise. The Green […]

25th March 2014

“Welcome To Dublin, Please Ignore the Mess”

Green Party Representatives Seek Urgent Clean-Up ofthe Most-Littered Road in Dublin, bordering Fingal and Dublin City areas.   Tuesday 25th March 2014 The Green Party’s arearepresentatives in the Ballymun Ward of Dublin City Council and the Swords Wardof Fingal County Council demand that the two Councils get their act togetherand tackle the unholy mess that […]

25th March 2014

Future of Dublin Mayor squarely in Labour

There are twenty-four councillors on Fingal County Council, including eight from Labour   Monday24 March 2014, Dublin. Duringthe course of the next week, councillors across Dublin will be voting onwhether or not to permit the holding of a plebiscite for a directly electedmayor. Despite committing to legislate for a mayor in their pre-electionmanifesto, Fine Gael […]

24th March 2014