Gino Kenny: People Before Profit Dublin Mid West

Election Blog 09 starting next week.

2009-03-27T00:04:00.002Z

Yeah, thats right everybody.. You can get updates and campaign information right here from April 6th. I will update the blog every night, to give the up's and down's of the election campaign, and hopefully photo's to boot. So tune in, and stay awake.. Gino

Clondalkin PBP Meetings on Dublin Bus cutbacks

2009-02-12T20:18:00.001Z

The People Before Profit Alliance is organizing a series of public meetings about the cutbacks in bus services to the Clondalkin area.On Monday 16th at 8pm. Collinstown Sports and Leisure Centre. Speaker will be Eugene Mc Donagh, National Executive of the NRBU bus union. The meeting will be chaired by Gino Kenny.On Thursday 19th at 7.45pm. Bawnogue Community Centre, speaker will be Owen McCormack

Hands off our buses public meeting in Ballyfermot

2009-02-12T18:42:00.001Z

A large and diverse crowd from Ballyfermot and Clondalkin attended a public meeting organised by the People Before Profit Alliance in Ballyfermot on Monday 9th February. The meeting was organised by the local candidate Brid Smith to highlight the cuts to the bus service for the area.Among those who addressed the meeting were Eugene McDonagh, NBRU National Executive, Councillors Joan Collins,

PBP Clondalkin Newsletter No.2

2009-01-31T11:26:00.002Z

Save our Crèches.Last December SIPTU called a day of action over the attacks on community Crèche facilities around Ireland. In the past, funding for crèches came from the European Social fund and this money was used to subsidize staffing costs. As these made up 90% of all costs, it meant that people could avail of the service between 60 and 80 euro each week. In Clondalkin alone there are many

Stop Cuts To Local Bus Services

2009-01-31T11:21:00.001Z

People Before Profit Alliance in Ballyfermot and Clondalkin are calling on local people to support busworkers and fight cuts to the bus services in their area.Dublin Bus is to lay off 300 employees and cut 120 routes across the city. This amounts to one tenth of the total bus service.Brid Smith (People Before Profit candidate for Ballyfermot/Drimnagh) told the Echo that “these cuts to services

Gino Kenny's election launch for the local elections in 2009

2008-11-12T19:45:00.000Z

People before Profit representative in Clondalkin, Gino Kenny will be officially launching his campaign for the local election in 2009. Mr Kenny narrowly missed out in the 2004 local election, and got a respectable 1100 votes in the 2007 general election. Mr Kenny says " In the present climate, people are looking for a opposition to the free market ideals. We have seen the Irish banks been giving

Picket Outside Ronanstown Garda Station. Monday 10th November at 7.15 pm

2008-11-07T20:21:00.002Z

Mastaction Clondalkin and local residents and will be holding a picket outside the Ronanstown Garda Station this Monday at 7.15pm.Following on from a successful picket last week, residents are highlighting the continuing concerns we are having about the effects of the mobile phone mast in the Garda station and the high tension electrical pylons which run through the Neilstown area.M.A.C have

Phone mast fears grow as more locals suffer cancer

2008-10-26T21:31:00.003Z

From the Evening Heraldhttp://www.herald.ie/national-news/phone-mast-fears-grow-as-more-locals-suffer-cancer-1505195.htmlBy Geraldine GittensWednesday October 22 2008RESIDENTS of a West Dublin housing estate, which lies next to a phone mast, are calling on the HSE to conduct a full health assessment in the area after an apparently large number of cancer diagnoses.Neighbours in St Ronan's Gardens,

Mastaction Clondalkin organises street meeting Monday 20th October

2008-10-20T14:51:00.002+01:00

Mastaction Clondalkin will be holding a street meeting tonight at 8.PM in St Ronans Gardens. Concerned residents have called the meeting in relation to the high numbers of residents who have been sick in the estate in the past few months.Imelda Russell who's a resident of the street said, " We are calling this street meeting to highlight to wants going on this street. Were getting the residents

PBP Public Meeting: Capitalism in Crisis. Is it the 1930's all over again.?

2008-10-09T13:06:00.005+01:00