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Labour Party @labour.ie · 06/05/2026
👉️The gaps between the have lots and have nots is widening under this Govt. PAYE workers need a break. 🗣️Tomorrow the Dáil debates Labour's mini-Budget proposals to provide immediate relief to families. 📻️Our finance spox @gednashtd.bsky.social will join the News at One to discuss this lunchtime.
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 26/03/2026
❤️‍🩹 It's time to introduce miscarriage and fertility leave in Ireland. 📻️ Labour leader @ivanabacik.bsky.social TD will join the Today with David McCullough programme today to discuss Labour's legislation to provide leave when it matters most. 🕙️ Tune in to RTÉ Radio One now.
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 02/03/2026
Labour selects Ruth O’Dea to fight for Dublin Central 🌹🌹 Folllow her 👉 @ruthodea.bsky.social Read more here: labour.ie/news/2026/03...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 25/02/2026
Join us today to show your support for SNAs across the country. 🕓 4pm 📍Buswells Hotel ✊ Protest starts at 5pm #SupportOurSNAs
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 19/02/2026
Thank you to the hundreds of you who joined us this evening to organise to protect our SNAs. 👉 Join us at 5pm outside Leinster House next Wednesday. 👉 Let’s get this decision reversed. 👉 Let’s stand in support of children, families and SNAs ✊ Let’s do it together.
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 19/02/2026
Today is your last chance to join Helen Ogbu’s Campaign Team!⁠ ⁠ We are recruiting a Digital Campaign Officer to join Helen Ogbu’s campaign team for the forthcoming Galway West bye-election.⁠ ⁠ Applications close tomorrow! #GaillimhOgbu⁠ ⁠ labour.ie/join-helen-o...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 18/02/2026
Remote work should be a right - not a benefit. 💻️⁠ ⁠ Today at 10am we will put it up to this Fine Gael Fianna Fáil coalition to take this opportunity to transform the world of work for the better.⁠ ⁠ Are you with us? ⁠ ⁠ Contact your local TD and ask them to support the Labour Party remote work bill!
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 16/02/2026
Labour, @forsatradeunion.bsky.social, @fsuireland.bsky.social, @nwc.bsky.social and @onefamilyireland.bsky.social came together today to call for stronger legislation to guarantee a right to remote working, as opposed to a right to request it. Ask your TD to support! labour.ie/news/2026/02...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 11/02/2026
📻️ Labour's health spokesperson @mariesherlock.bsky.social will join Drivetime this evening on the latest revelations about Children's Health Ireland. 🕔️ Tune into RTÉ Radio One from 5pm.
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 11/02/2026
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are completely in the pocket of private investors. The rental changes they want to ram through this evening will see renters thrown to the wolves. ✊️Join us tonight to send a clear message to Government - renters cannot take anymore. 📍 Leinster House 🕠️ 5:30pm
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 10/02/2026
Government must act now to free Irish citizen held in US detention. Speaking at Leaders Question today Labour Leader @ivanabacik.bsky.social pressed An Taoiseach to use every available diplomatic channel to intervene. Full statement ➡️ labour.ie/news/2026/02...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 10/02/2026
Labour calls for year long postnatal mental health care. "Tomorrow I’m bringing a motion to the Seanad because 6 weeks of postnatal care is not enough. We must ensure no mother is left without support." @nessacosgrove.bsky.social ➡️ labour.ie/news/2026/02...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 05/02/2026
Come work with us 💻️ We want to elect Cllr Helen Ogbu as the next TD for Galway West. 🌹 If you like working on digital campaigns, filming, editing and organising, join us! #GaillimhOgbu Find out more at the link below 👇️ 🔗 labour.ie/join-helen-o...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 03/02/2026
Join Helen Ogbu’s Campaign Team! We are recruiting a Digital Campaign Officer to join Helen Ogbu’s campaign team for the forthcoming Galway West bye-election. #GaillimhOgbu Find out more at the link below 🔗 labour.ie/join-helen-o...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 29/01/2026
Let's elect Cllr Helen Ogbu as the next TD for Galway West ✅️ Helen is in politics to give back to her community, to inspire others, and to show that our democracy belongs to all. Get involved. If you're in a position to chip in to the campaign you can do so here: secure.labour.ie/page/185306/...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 28/01/2026
📻 Labour TD for Wexford @georgelawlor.bsky.social will join @newstalkfm.bsky.social Breakfast Show after 8am this morning.
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 27/01/2026
🏡 Government's proposed changes to rental laws will wreak havoc on the lives of renters. 📻️ Labour TD for Dublin Central @mariesherlock.bsky.social will join Drivetime this evening to call for greater protections for renters. 🕔️ Tune in from 5pm.
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 27/01/2026
🗣️Govt rental changes will throw renters to the wolves. - @mariesherlock.bsky.social 👉There are over 5,400 eviction notices issued in the third quarter of 2025. People are going to lose their homes in the coming months.
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 21/01/2026
Did you get stuck in traffic this morning? The Labour Party is moving a motion in the Dáil this morning to tackle traffic congestion. Key to this is providing workers with a right to flexible work! Tune in life: www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 21/01/2026
🌍It’s time to protect Irish workers from Trump-led instability. 📻 Labour leader @ivanabacik.bsky.social will join Morning Ireland this morning to discuss. 🕗 Tune in from 8am.
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 16/01/2026
🌱 Our public spaces need quality facilities, from public toilets to playgrounds, benches to bins. Labour's @horganp.bsky.social will join RTÉ's Drivetime this evening to discuss. 📻 Tune after 4pm.
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 16/01/2026
"If I am guilty, then you're guilty too.” The news of Sean Binder and his fellow humanitarians not guilty verdict is welcome news. You can listen back to a Sean Binder’s interview with Labour Youth after being awarded the 2023 Cormac Ó Braonáin award. 🔗 shows.acast.com/the-bread-an...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 15/01/2026
Great day of discussion with our sister party colleagues in the @sdlp.bsky.social ⁠ ⁠ Was a pleasure to speak about a shared vision for Ireland and to visit Stormont. 🌹
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 15/01/2026
“Labour is calling on the Minister to strengthen the legislation currently in place for sexualised images and child pornography."⁠ ⁠ 🔗 labour.ie/news/2026/01...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 15/01/2026
Cost of living still spiralling as Government runs out of answers. "Families are being hit from every direction while Government stands aside" Duncan Smith TD speaking at Leaders' Questions in the Dáil today. ➡️ labour.ie/news/2026/01...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 15/01/2026
Almost 30 years on from the Good Friday Agreement we have peace but we still do not have genuine reconciliation on this island.⁠ ⁠ It's fundamental that we take a human rights approach to truth and justice in the North.
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 15/01/2026
📻 Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport and Labour TD Alan Kelly will join @todayfm.bsky.social Last Word after 5pm following the X / Grok scandal. Tune in live from 5pm this evening. Full statement is available here: labour.ie/news/2026/01...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 14/01/2026
No matter the weather 🌹 🇵🇸
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 14/01/2026
Labour’s Equal Status (Access to Toilet Facilities) Bill 2025 aims to change this by placing No Wait Cards on a statutory footing, ensuring that retail shops and businesses with staff toilets make them available to those who need them. 🔗 labour.ie/news/2026/01...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 14/01/2026
“The commentary by Judge James O’Donohoe is deeply problematic, and has exhibited a clear perception of bias against cyclists in his decision-making." @ciaranahern.bsky.social 🔗 labour.ie/news/2026/01...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 14/01/2026
🦷 Dental care has become the poor relation of the health service. Labour's health spokesperson @mariesherlock.bsky.social will join The Last Word this evening to discuss the changes that need to be made to Ireland's dental services. Tune in from 4:30pm: www.todayfm.com
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 07/01/2026
"This did not happen by accident. It is the direct result of decisions taken by Government to protect the status quo rather than confront the scale of the climate crisis." - @ciaranahern.bsky.social 🔗 Read the full statement from Labour Party Climate Spokesperson: labour.ie/news/2026/01...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 03/01/2026
"The flagrancy with which the United States has acted in Venezuela has shocked the world and undermines the very foundations of international cooperation and respect for sovereign nations." Read the full statement from @duncansmithtd.bsky.social 🔗 labour.ie/news/2026/01...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 15/12/2025
❝The focus on student housing should be on delivering options that are genuinely affordable and accessible. Join us this Thursday at 11am to protest against any move to increase rents for students.❞ - Senator Laura Harmon 🔗 Full statement: labour.ie/news/2025/12...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 24/09/2025
"Instead of committing €630 million to untargeted VAT reduction measures, Government must commit to solving our child poverty and homelessness crisis, and the improvement of public services and a reduction in waiting lists for disability and health services." - Ged Nash TD
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 24/09/2025
"I have been accused of being ideological for pushing for better provision for working and low-income families. To that I say a tax cutting agenda absent of meaningful supports for struggling households, is fundamentally ideological too." @ivanabacik.bsky.social
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 24/09/2025
"The gap between those who have and those who have not is widening every single day. You boast about “full employment.” But what good is a job when people need two of them, just to keep the lights on?" - Rob O'Donoghue TD
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 24/09/2025
"Young workers are in constant contact with me to raise the fact, that they have simply been priced out of the housing market. When do you decide you’ve got it wrong, that you don’t have the answers, because the evidence is in the figures." @duncansmithtd.bsky.social
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 24/09/2025
"The Government have choices. The cost of living is chronic, I've never seen it this bad. The Hot School Meals programme has been rolled out across primary schools but remains unavailable to far too many children" - Alan Kelly TD
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 24/09/2025
"This government can introduce an immediate ban on Child Evictions. I'm coming across harrowing stories because of the failure of this Government" @mariesherlock.bsky.social
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 24/09/2025
"Government is spending their time drafting a budget to give tax reductions to the food and catering industry, while mothers and fathers are struggling to put food on the table. The priorities of our state are totally skewed." - Eoghan Kenny TD
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 24/09/2025
"With over 5,000 children in homelessness, we need stop managing this crisis and start solving it. We need a ban on the eviction of children into homelessness, and legislation to prioritise the housing needs of homeless families." @georgelawlor.bsky.social
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 24/09/2025
"Let me be clear, when over 5,000 children are homeless, we are no longer in a housing crisis. It is an emergency, and we need to act like it." - Mark Wall TD
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 22/09/2025
"With average rent nationwide now at €2,025, we know that those living in private rented accommodation are at huge risk of entering homelessness. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael just don’t get it.” 🔗 Read the full statement from @conorsheehan.bsky.social here: labour.ie/news/2025/09...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 22/09/2025
"The six-week consultation window is far too short. It is not realistic for such a complex and important process that will determine children’s access to supports for the school year ahead." 🔗 Read the full statement from Eoghan Kenny TD here: labour.ie/news/2025/09...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 19/09/2025
🔌 None of this has happened overnight. Government’s failure to make any ground in terms of investment in renewables or undertaking large retrofitting projects is leaving households across the country exposed. 💸 🔗 Read the full statement from Ciaran Ahern TD here: labour.ie/news/
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 17/09/2025
📣Stop student fee increases‼️ Politics is about choices. Today the Dáil returns and we are clear that students and their families cannot be the victims of short-term political choices by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. 🔗 Read Senator Laura Harmon's statement in full on our website: labour.ie
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 11/09/2025
❝This has the potential to seriously delay and disrupt the work of the Court, leading to the cancellation and postponement of cases. It is essential that the independence and functions of the Court are protected.❞ @georgelawlor.bsky.social Full statement 🌹: labour.ie/news/2025/09...
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 01/09/2025
📣 Equality and fairness for school secretaries and caretakers. It's time for the Labour Court to intervene in the dispute over #PensionParity for school secretaries and caretakers.🚨 Let’s stand with secretaries and caretakers as they begin their strike action.
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Labour Party @labour.ie · 09/07/2025
📣 They say fees? We say FIGHT BACK! ✊️ Politics is about choices. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are choosing to let down a generation of students and their families. We will not stand by and let this happen.
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