Come along to the official launch of PbP candidate Sean Moraghan's Tralee Town Council election campaign,

and let’s start talking about how we can fight the cutbacks, and bring change to the political landscape of Tralee!

"A la Lucha!" read full story / add a comment

Public Sector workers in Tralee are holding protests outside the clinics of Kerry TDs, tomorrow, Saturday 14th February.

PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT ALLIANCE (Tralee) lends its full support to the Tralee union protests against the attacks on the Public Sector.

The demo will begin at the offices of Tom McEllistrim, Fianna Fail TD.

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The government’s cutbacks in education will have a drastic effect on Primary schools in Tralee. People Before Profit support local demands for their reversal.

Scoil Eoin, which will have over 600 students next year, will lose one teacher as a direct result of the increase in class sizes and will face cutbacks in language support staff which will have a severe impact on students for whom English is not their first language. In addition three quarters of its students are studying in prefabs and in a building dating back to 1858! They are still waiting for a new school.
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Listen to Irish Writers read from work about Love – and chocolate – to celebrate the weekend of romance – and the launch of Census, The First Seven Towers Anthology - €1 from each copy sold will be donated to AWARE

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"Welcome to Hebron" is a documentary about Leila Sarsour and her daily life under Israeli occupation.

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Come along to a gr8 fund-raisin' TABLE QUIZ for People B4 Profit Alliance Candidate, Sean Moraghan.

Fun, prizes and craic at THE GREYHOUND BAR, Pembroke Street (thanks guys)

February 19 Feb @ 8PM.

Quizmaster: Nigel B

All Welcome!
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A demonstration has been called by Palestinians who are living in Killarney read full story / add a comment

Stop the Slaughter in Gaza! A demonstration in support of the Palestinian people will take place in
The Square, Tralee, Saturday 10th Jan @ 11.30am read full story / add a comment

Charlie McGreevy having introduced Medical Cards as an automatic right for the over 70s in 2001 in an attempt by Fianna Fail to win support at the upcoming General Election, another Fianna Fail Minister for Finance, Brian Lenehan, then proposed taking away this automatic right and reintroducing a means test. Anyone with an income in access of e241.00 per week was to lose their Medical Card.

That meant people over seventy who had worked and paid taxes all their lives and may have had a small occupational pension would have lost their medical cards.

It was a disgrace.

All this is in an effort to save e100 million! Yet the same Minister for finance had no problem providing a guarantee to the banks of almost e500 billion! Northern Ireland, which experienced nothing like the wealth that occurred in the Republic of Ireland during the years of the Celtic Tiger, is about to introduce free medical prescriptions for all, but then, they enjoy universal free health care.
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People Before Profit Alliance (Kerry) will take part in a Demonstration/vigil against the removal of Medical Cards for the Over-70s ... and the philosophy behind it read full story / add a comment

Three speakers will visit Tralee to argue for a new move to the Left, following the defeat of the Lisbon Treaty.

**Francois Duval is a French activist who has been involved in forming a new Left party.

**Kieran Allen is a university lecturer and sociologist who has spoken in Tralee on a number of occassions. He has written books on Ireland's so-called Celtic Tiger and "The Corporate Takeover of Ireland".

**Dermot Connolly is a member of the Campaign for an Independent Left
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Three speakers will visit Tralee to argue for a new move to the Left, following the defeat of the Lisbon Treaty.

**Francois Duval is a French activist who has been involved in forming a new Left party.

**Kieran Allen is a university lecturer and sociologist who has spoken in Tralee on a number of occassions. He has written books on Ireland's so-called Celtic Tiger and "The Corporate Takeover of Ireland".

**Dermot Connolly is a member of the Campaign for an Independent Left read full story / add a comment

Amnesty International Tralee Group invites you to a Public Meeting on "Mental Health in Ireland".
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Dutch socialist MP Harry Van Bommel led the successful No vote campaign in Holland in 2005. His argument was primarily on the undemocratic nature of the EU. Of his own country he said he found it “remarkable that 62 per cent of voters reject something that is supported by 85 per cent of parliament.”.

That was then.

Now, Harry’s back.

He wants to continue the “debate on what Europe should be and should do”.

Mr Van Bommel is taking part in a speaking tour of Ireland, and will be speaking in Tralee on Sunday April 6th at 8PM at the Grand Hotel.

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The state-sponsored "Forum on Europe" is hosting a debate on the EU
treaty, this Tuesday 11th March.

Venue: Brandon Hotel, Tralee @7.30

Speakers: YES: Alan Dukes, NO: Martin Ferris/Sinn Fein

***Anyone concerned with the EU treaty's implications for
Militarisation and Privatisation would want to attend this one*** read full story / add a comment

Palestinian speaker Nidal Sardek will talk, informally, about the
different factions among the Palestinian resistance groups and the
history of the conflict.

VENUE: Imperial Hotel Bar, basement of, darkest part of, THURSDAY 6
March @ 7.30

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Tralee SWP hosts a 30-minute talk on "Irish Labour and The Civil War 1922-1923" read full story / add a comment

Kieran Allen, UCD sociologist, is launching a new book, "Reasons to Vote No to the Lisbon Treaty" in Tralee.

He will give a SLIDE SHOW on the impact of the Lisbon Treaty as part the public launch for the book in The Grand Hotel, Tralee on Tuesday 29th January @ 8PM. read full story / add a comment

To mark the sixth anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to Guantánamo Bay, Amnesty International Tralee Branch is taking its part
in **Worldwide** events, rallies and meetings to seek the immediate closure of the detention centre and an end to all illegal detentions.

In Tralee you will find a lone participant dressed in an ORANGE JUMPSUIT with a white facemask.
Each 'statue' will highlight the issue of solitary confinement, and identify a specific individual in Guantánamo.

Other AI members will collect signatures on a petition to be delivered to the US Ambassador in Ireland.

VENUE: The Square, Tralee, Saturday 12th January @ 2PM

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Cancer Services in Kerry General Hospital are to be removed and relocated to Cork. There will supposedly be a better system of care there under one of several national ‘centres of excellence’.
But that means that patients from Kerry could have a two-hour trip each way (or longer) to access treatment. That is in direct contradiction to the HSE’s statements that care of patients should be given as close to their homes as possible, and that there should be a greater emphasis on delivery of care in the local community.
Long trips on top of treatments and trauma can hardly constitute excellent care. read full story / add a comment