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Windsors Still Not Welcome In Ireland!

Windsors Still Not Welcome In Ireland!

Cathaoirleach Éirígí, Brian Leeson, has slammed Enda Kenny’s decision to invite William and Kate Windsor to Ireland and reaffirmed the socialist republican party’s opposition to all British royal visits to Ireland. Leeson described the invitation as ‘an embarrassment’ designed to portray the relationship between Ireland and Britain as ‘normal’.

British Court Upholds Workfare Programme – Stormont Votes For Unpaid Labour

British Court Upholds Workfare Programme – Stormont Votes For Unpaid Labour

In a mixed judgment, the High Court in Britain on Monday [August 6] ruled that regulations through which the British government has created many of its ‘Workfare’ schemes are lawful but that the decision of the Department of Work and Pensions [DWP] to strip clients of benefits for six months for refusing to undertake compulsory work was unlawful.