I want our decision makers to use their powers to ensure that a message is sent that trying to burn asylum seekers in their homes is an extremely serious offence.

Whom it may concern  Our little village is based in Cullen Co Tipperary. Unfortunately our local children haven’t got any space in the village where they can play together. It would be a great opportunity for the village to have an operating playground for the local children. It would be a huge opportunity to boost the local population too, it would encourage young families to move into the area.  We kindly asking the local authority to consider this idea & business opportunity. 

This petition calls on Dublin City Council in the wake of Covid 19 and to address the urgent issue of the city’s poor hygiene infrastructure and lack of public toilets. DCC currently has no action plan or budget allocated to place temporary toilets in and around the city, to be in place ahead of the June 8th (Phase 2) of unlocking the economy. Dublin City needs to be made to more attractive to retain repeat custom, this effects all business especially the retail & hospitality sectors. If you need toilet and cannot find please use #dubcaughtshort The DCC needs to act now Please take the Time to sign this petition and also I would be grateful if you could go to my GO FUND ME PAGE. I hope to raise some funds to place some temporary toilets in the city with in the coming days, the aim will be to force DCC to immediate act roll out facilities before June 8th.

Next week, on Wednesday, 9th November, Joan Collins TD will move a Bill to hold a referendum to insert into the Constitution an amendment which would rule out any future privatisation of water, or water services. Forty TDs have signed the Bill including Independents4Change, Sinn Fein, AAA/PBP and a number of independent TD’s. A number of others including the Green Party, the Labour Party and the Social Democrats have said publicly that they would support a referendum on public ownership of our water, so the Bill has a real chance of passing. Put simply, this Bill will only pass if supported by Fianna Fail. Therefore we are asking everybody concerned about the ownership of our water to use every means they can to contact their local TDs, especially Fianna Fail, by email, letter, phone call or direct lobbying and demand they support the Bill. We expect the Government (and possibly Fianna Fail) to argue that they are waiting for the Expert Commission on Domestic Water Charges to present their report to the Oireachtas – but public ownership of water is not in the Terms of Reference for the Commission, so this is a smokescreen. The government deliberately omitted public ownership from the terms of reference in full knowledge that the Commission might actually make a recommendation to enshrine ownership in the hands of the public. This is something they clearly don’t want. At this very moment in time, any government, including the current one, could legislate to sell off our public water system. Furthermore, even if a government did not want to sell off our water, the EU, IMF or ECB could force the sale in the future – like they did in Greece and Portugal – so we have to protect our vital public water system now! The devastating impacts of water privatization have been felt all around the world. In the UK, one in four people are now experiencing water poverty. In the US, Rome and parts of France, tens of thousands are having their water shut off. We can prevent much of this by putting ownership of our water in the Constitution. There are no TD’s in the Dail, even in Fine Gael, who will come out and argue openly for privatisation. But can you take their word on this? If they don’t want water privatisation, they can prove it by simply supporting this Bill next Wednesday. Here are the details of Fianna Fail TD’s (full list available here at http://www.right2water.ie/blog/we-only-have-one-week-protect-our-water) Carlow/Kilkenny Bobby Aylward 056 7764726 Carlow/Kilkenny John McGuinness 056 7770672 087 2855834 Cavan/Monaghan Brendan Smith 049 4362366 Cavan/Monaghan Niamh Smyth 042 9666666 087 9982222 Clare Timmy Dooley 065 6891115 Cork East Kevin O Keefe 022 25320 Cork North Central Billy Kelleher 021 4502289 Cork North West Aindrias Moynihan 026 45828 Cork North West Michael Moynihan 029 51299 Cork South Central Michael McGrath 021 4376699 Cork South Central Micheal Martin 021 4320088 Cork South West Margaret Murphy O’Mahony 086 8529275 Donegal Charlie McConalogue 074 9373131/074 9177282 Donegal Pat The Cope Gallagher 074 95 21364 087 2238925 Dublin Bay North Sean Haughey 01 6183695 087 3494888 Dublin Bay South Jim O Callaghan 01 4758943 Dublin Fingal Darragh O Brien 01 6183802 Dublin Midwest John Curran 01 6183792 Dublin South West John Lahart 01 4939608 Dublin West Jack Chambers 086 4177335 Galway East Anne Rabbitte 087 2424704 Galway West Eamon O Cuiv 091 562846 Kerry John Brassil 066 7133112 087 2362330 Kildare North Frank O Rourke 087 2555257 Kildare North James Lawless 086 8348869 Kildare South Fiona O Loughlin 045 436792 087 2345160 Laois Sean Fleming 057 8732692 Limerick City Willie O Dea 061 454488/ 061 454522 Limerick County Niall Collins 061 300149 087 2749659 Longford/Westmeath Robert Troy 044 9334857 Louth Declan Breathnach 087 2697638 Mayo Dara Calleary 096 77613 Mayo Lisa Chambers 094 9250577 Meath East Thomas Byrne 01 6183310 Meath West Shane Cassells 086 3399198 Offaly Barry Cowen 057 9321976 Roscommon/Galway Eugene Murphy 071 963 3000 Sligo/Leitrim Eamon Scanlon 071 9197903/ 071 9302537 Sligo/Leitrim Marc Mac Sharry 086 2674764 Tipperary Jackie Cahill 087 2820663 Waterford Mary Butler 087 7425020 Wexford James Browne 086 8575387 Wicklow Pat Casey 086 2649483

For nearly four years, the lives of the people and their four legged friends who use Blackrock Park, have been enriched by the Bumble Bean, and the wonderful Gwen, serving up hot drinks, snacks, ice cream and of course dog treats! She's brought so many people together, and created a real sense of community amongst those of us who regularly use the park. With the redevelopment of the tea rooms, we knew that change was a foot. However, we did not expect to have many months with no tea, coffee, snacks, chats or dog treats!  Gwen would be very happy to come back to Blackrock Park and operate the Bumble Bean on a month by month contract until the tea rooms are ready to open. We all want her back. We just need the council to allow her back! 

Dear Taoiseach, As healthcare workers we call on you, who as a doctor must share our core values of Compassion, Integrity and Justice, to show leadership in a divided Europe. Ireland must show that we learn from the tragedies of the past, and rather than seeking retribution for them, we act to prevent them happening again. The children of today should not die because of what happened to the children of yesterday. If we do not do all in our power to stop Israel committing human rights abuses in Palestine, we are complicit with them. We ask the Oireachtas to: • Enact the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 • Enact the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023 • Exclude from government contracts or investment all companies complicit with Israel’s violation of human rights, including ending our arms trade with Israel • Ensure that no arms intended for use by Israel transit through Shannon airport • Recognise the State of Palestine These actions are long overdue – to our shame. If we had undertaken them when they were first proposed, Gaza might not be the graveyard for children that it is today.

Our politicians should be focused on improving abortion access, including decriminalisation and NHS funding for women in Northern Ireland, not trading away hard-earned rights.

Please sign our petition to pressure on SDCC to act and implement an environmental rating system for businesses so that we can try to combat plastic pollution.

We are calling on the government to tackle socio-economic and gender inequality on our campuses by providing access to free period products to the students and staff who need it.

Stop the agricultural sector from polluting our rivers and waterways with silage runoff, the spreading of agricultural slurry, and the excessive, unnecessary overuse of chemical salt fertiliser.