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Opera site in question after Revenue considers future of the office.

Opera site in question after Revenue considers future of the office.

Minister for the Office of Public works, Patrick O'Donovan, in a recent interview with Live95FM confirmed that due to a move to remote, blended and hybrid forms of working the original plan for 900 Revenue Commission staff to move from their office in Sarsfield house to offices in the Opera

Small farmers being pushed out as policy supports exports over food sovereignty.

Small farmers being pushed out as policy supports exports over food sovereignty.

Last weekend members of People Before Profit from all across the island, including Bríd Smith TD for Dublin South-Central, gathered in Ox Mountain, near Tubbercurry in county Sligo to meet with farmers, discuss the problems they face living off the land and to develop a new policy that places farmers

Council plans to sell off derelict properties instead of redeveloping them.

Council plans to sell off derelict properties instead of redeveloping them.

2 derelict properties that had been transferred to Limerick Council have been put up for sale on property website daft.ie by commercial real estate company Avison Young. One of the properties, the former Mary Street Garda station, had been transferred to the council from the OPW for €50,000

Pay-as-you-go energy users not protected from disconnection this winter

Pay-as-you-go energy users not protected from disconnection this winter

In August it was announced that the energy regulator, CRU, has extended the moratorium on disconnections for energy users from mid-December to mid-January to December 1st to February 28th in a bid to keep energy flowing this winter. In response to a question by Solidarity-People Before Profit TD, Mick Barry,

Air Quality in Mungret plummets as particulate density soars.

Air Quality in Mungret plummets as particulate density soars.

On September 26th the air quality index as recorded by the monitor located at the Office of Public Works Arterial Drainage Maintenance site, across the road from the Irish Cement plant, was 9 out of 10. According to the Environmental Protection Agency's "Air Quality Index for Health" a rating of

Unite Members Defend Dismissed workers.

Unite Members Defend Dismissed workers.

Early yesterday morning a protest by Unite members went up at the Kildare headquarters of Murphy Group the construction engineering company outside Newbridge Co. Kildare. The sign that Murphy had taken an anti-trade union action was on site: the giant inflatable rat. The leaflets being handed out said: Murphy Group

Irish Cement granted licence to burn tyres as Mungret tops air pollution table.

Irish Cement granted licence to burn tyres as Mungret tops air pollution table.

Following a Judicial Review, Irish Cement has had the licence granted to it by EPA last year to move from burning fossil fuels to burning recovered solid waste, including used tyres, in the production of cement. Last week measurements for small particulates in the air in Mungret have exceeded the