An historic railway viaduct in Fermoy lies idle even though plans and funding exist to develop it as part of a walking route and amenity structure. Recently, what public access existed to the structure has been blocked by the landowner. Existing rights of way need to be respected and development of the area as amenity…
PBP highlights Cork County Council’s removal of bins in Midleton and calls for immediate increase in public bins
People Before Profit members in East Cork have started a campaign to highlight the removal of public bins in Midleton, Co. Cork. Cork County Council is gradually removing public bins, leaving it to the tidy towns committee to provide makeshift bins tied onto signs and footpaths and to clean up the town. Ordinary people should…
PBP Calls on Cork County Council to pay for litter management, not a pointless public information campaigns
It’s hard to know where to start with the ourtageous comments from the (unelected) Chief Executive of Cork County Council Tim Lucey in relation to public bins (echolive, 27 April 2021 – ‘We are not throwing more money into this’: Cork Council Chief rules out providing more bins to ease littering). It seems as though…
A bleak day for the European Green Deal
The European Green Deal is a set of initiatives brought forward by the European Commission with the stated aim of making Europe Carbon neutral by 2050, similar in many ways to the US’s Green New Deal. However, on April 8th the European Commission announced it was appointing BlackRock, an investment and wealth management company which…
PBP Cork announce Bobby Murray Walsh as candidate for Cork South-Central for #GE2020
24-year-old call centre worker Murray Walsh will put housing, transport and climate at the heart of campaign People Before Profit have announced local activist Bobby Murray Walsh as their candidate for the Cork South Central constituency in the 8th February general election. Mr Murray Walsh, who lives in Douglas, has said he is ‘most concerned…
People Before Profit call for public transport through Jack Lynch Tunnel
People Before Profit in Cork are calling on Cork City Council, Bus Eireann and the National Transport Authority to immediately provide a high-frequency public transport link connecting the East Cork rail links at Little Island with communities based in the Cork southern suburbs. Presently, thousands of commuters have the following options for their journeys to…
Our Statement on the Cork Greens’ Call for an LPT Increase – tax the wealthy, not the majority
WE NEED IMMEDIATE, RADICAL ACTION ON CLIMATE – NOT DEAD-END TOKENISM Our statement on the deeply regressive position the Cork Greens have taken on Local Property Tax, calling for a 15% hike last week: On 16 September, the Cork Greens proposed a 15% increase in the deeply regressive Local Property Tax (LPT) to fund infrastructure…
PBP Cork Statement on An Post closure at Little Island
The announcement on Thursday 27 June by An Post that they will close the Cork mail center at Little Island in Cork was shocking but not had been rumoured and was not unexpected to the employees at the center. An Post had been flagging the closure of one of the four mail centers currently in…
PBP Submission to Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (CMATS)
On Friday 28 June the Cork branch of People Before Profit made a submission as part of the public consultation to the Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (CMATS) as presented by the National Transport Authority (NTA). In our submission we called for significant investment and expansion of public transport and for the scrapping of public…
Responses to common arguments Fine Gael make promoting fossil fuel extraction
Fine Gael often argue against People Before Profit’s Climate Emergency Measures Bill. Whether it’s Jerry Buttimer writing about how we are an ‘extremist’ organisation for suggesting that fossil fuels should be left in the ground, or Alan Farrell TD suggesting that People Before Profit are only sponsoring the Bill so that we can ‘tear the…
