Mark Zuckerberg and his data centres aren’t expected to pay the same rates for energy that working-class Irish households are forced to pay, yet he can afford to buy a castle in Waterford. Irish households are cutting back on meals because they can’t afford soaring energy bills largely because worki

Israelis who partook in the genocide can enter Ireland without a visa and without a question, while Palestinians who survived that genocide, and who have secured scholarships to Irish universities, are being denied entry. This is a glaring double standard that showcases exactly how our state chooses

Trump is a warmonger, an Epstein associate and a predator. His government is unleashing paramilitary force against the American working class while billionaires are handed more power, more wealth and more control. He is not welcome here. Dublin Rape Crisis, Irish Neutrality League and Irish Anti-Wa

The Ditch has reported that at least 75 Irish citizens enlisted in the Israeli occupation forces during the genocide. Almost three years ago, we asked the government whether it would investigate how many Irish citizens had enlisted. They refused to even look into the numbers. Those who participate

Palestinians are not passive victims waiting for imperial powers to save them, they are the active authors of their own history and liberation.

Europe is facing what is very likely to be its most destructive wildfire season on record. As communities are evacuated, wildlife is destroyed and firefighters across Europe risk, and in some cases, lose their lives defending our communities, fossil fuel billionaires and tech executives continue to

The government spent €100,000 of public money on a KPMG report on data centres and then deleted anything negative from it! We are just paying for their propaganda to pretend that data centres aren't driving up our electricity prices and cutting across housing and transport!

Reporting from Statewatch reveals that the European Commission is continuing to negotiate with apartheid Israel to share personal data with its “national security” services. Noted in the reporting and by the EU’s own legal advisory is the warning that continued negotiation is done without sanction o

The narrative being pushed by the government and data centre lobbyists is a carefully constructed story designed to justify Ireland’s dependence on American capital. This agenda reflects a wider economic system where our future is shaped by market demands dictated by billionaire speculation rather t

Nearly 90% of commentary on Islamophobic hate incidents in Ireland is being driven by accounts based outside Ireland, primarily from the United States and Britain. The culture wars being imported into Ireland are not spontaneous. They are amplified by networks of far-right influencers whose politic

Parents are being forced to shoulder yet another hidden cost of education. 57% of parents with children in secondary school have had to pay for digital devices, with some costs reaching as high as €850. At a time when the cost of living continues to soar, these expenses are placing enormous pressur

Europe is burning, and the warnings from scientists have never been clearer. Wildfires have already burned more land than the average annual total of the last two decades. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes in Spain and France. The result of decades of governments

Scandalous that 140 social homes in Dublin 9 have been lost to the private market, with rents now advertised for as much as €4,500 a month. This is the inevitable result of a dysfunctional housing model. While families languish on decade-long waiting lists, the current system prioritises risk-free

🗞️Householders to be hit with higher network charges on electricity bills. Ireland already has the most expensive electricity in the EU. Now households are being hit with another increase. Meanwhile, data centres accounted for 23% of all electricity used in Ireland last year.. Working people are

Developers opting out at the very last minute to deliver any social homes to an AHB and charging €4,500 is what you get when you incentivise people to extract the maximum amount of profit possible out of a need that people should never be expected to live without. We need to take back control from t

The rich never stop to worry about whether they’re making it too hard to live as a worker, the working class should have the same attitude right back.

The billionaire class is driving the climate crisis. Their private jets, superyachts and fossil fuel empires produce emissions on a scale ordinary people could never match. Yet we’re constantly told that workers and families must shoulder the burden while the super-rich carry on as normal. If we wa

The government wants to use public land to build and sell unaffordable homes, abandoning any pretence that public housing should be accessible to everyone. This is a robbery of all the potential that our public land bank has, stealing what could be thousands of homes for ordinary working class peopl

Naoise Dolan’s powerful piece in the LRB exposes the brutal reality of the Dublin housing crisis. Activists turned a vacant Victorian pub into the Anne Devlin Community Centre; bringing Irish language classes, first aid, and a volunteer café to the Liberties. What did the system do? Sent in the Gar

The Irish government is sending delegates to an anti-anti-fascist conference organised by the Trump regime. Let’s call it what it is: being anti-anti-fascist means standing up for fascism. Ireland has a proud revolutionary tradition of standing against fascism. When fascism threatened Europe, the v

Public meeting in Tallaght about An Post's plans to move our sorting office to Lucan. This will be a disaster for workers and our community. It will mean having to travel to Lucan to collect missed parcels. Pressure to get An Post to drop this plan is growing.

These are segments from James Connolly’s open letter to Dublin Castle in 1898. Today, a different flag flies over Dublin Castle, but the social evil Connolly fought against remains. Neoliberalism keeps millions of working people on the brink, or in the depths, of poverty. The EU speaks endlessly ab

The door is always open if you’re rich enough with Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael while workers have to fight tooth and nail for the bare minimum.

Every time there’s a crisis, the working class is told to tighten its belt. Use less. Consume less. Accept less. Now, as our water system comes under increasing strain, working class people are once again being told to conserve. Meanwhile, the Government continues to greenlight the endless expansio

Ireland is one of the wealthiest countries in Europe. But it's also one of the most expensive. The problem isn't a lack of money. The problem is a government that puts landlords, energy companies and big business before ordinary people. Another Ireland is possible. Get involved at pbp.ie

Overall, prices in Ireland are 36% higher than the EU average. 📈 Housing costs ⚡ Electricity prices 🏥 Health costs It's the result of political choices. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have allowed energy companies, landlords, private healthcare and big corporations to profit while ordinary people a