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Features by Councillor John Lyons Independent Left

Features by Councillor John Lyons Independent Left

Northside Community Forum Against Racism

16/02/2023 By John Lyons Leave a Comment

Northside For All

Statement by Councillor John Lyons in support of the Northside Community Forum Over recent weeks there have been protests in the area targeting people seeking refuge in Ireland. It has been sad to see and the consequences can be traumatic for those directly targeted and can further disadvantage all our efforts to fight for a […]

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Why is Ireland so Expensive?

08/07/2022 By John Lyons 1 Comment

Why is Ireland so Expensive Why is Dublin so expensive?

Ireland is officially the most expensive country in the EU Cost of Living Crisis: Time to Bail out the People The reason why Ireland – and Dublin in particular – is so expensive is because corporations are protecting their profit margins by further hiking up their prices which they can do as competition here is weak and […]

Filed Under: Independent Left Policies

DCC’s Oscar Traynor Road Development Plan

06/10/2020 By John Lyons 1 Comment

Zoning map Oscar Traynor Road near Coolock Lane

And why public land should be used for public housing On 16 November 2020, at a meeting of Dublin City Council, by a vote of 48 to 14 (1 abstention) councillors voted not to gift the 42 acres of prime council-owned land of the Oscar Traynor Road Development in Coolock to the property developer Glenveagh. […]

Filed Under: Dublin City Council Housing

Ireland after COVID19: Unite the Union’s ‘Hope or Austerity’ road map

06/05/2020 By John Lyons Leave a Comment

Debenhams workers in masks picket line

To date 3.6 million people worldwide have been infected by Covid-19, with over a quarter of a million (258,000) dying from the respiratory illness that attacks the lungs and airways. From December 2019 the virus travelled from its original source in southern China to all of Asia, Europe and the rest of the world in […]

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The Quiet Collapse of the Parnell Square Cultural Quarter

04/10/2019 By John Lyons 3 Comments

Parnell Square illustration

By Councillor John Lyons, Independent Left A beautiful new library, part of an ambitious new cultural quarter encompassing places for learning, literature, music, innovation and enterprise, inter-culturalism and design, to be located at Parnell Square Dublin 1, was in store for Dublin and Dubliners. The Central Library in the Ilac Shopping Centre has its charm […]

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