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The United Left Alliance has announced that it will hold a two-day counter-conference to coincide with the Labour Party National Conference, which will take place in NUI Galway on the 13^th and 14^th of April.

The Counter-conference will take place adjacent to the Labour Party event on the NUI Galway campus and will hear how the Labour Party’s year in Government has opened political space for a new political alternative.

Speakers, including opposition TDs, trade union leaders, campaigners, academics and former Labour members will challenge the Labour Party on its coalition with Fine Gael and its failure to deliver even the barest concessions for its working class constituency.

The United Left Alliance was established in 2010 in order to fight the 2011 General Election. It won five Dáil seats, and is opposed to the bank bailout and the austerity measure begun by Fianna Fáil and carried on by Fine Gael and Labour.

Conference organiser Conor McGuinness explained the rationale behind the counter-conference; “this year marks the 100^thanniversary of the Labour Party. The organisation that Larkin and Connolly established in 1912 has been corrupted beyond recognition. The leadership of the Labour party has turned its back on working people, on women, on the elderly and on the unemployed.

“This conference will provide a space for political activists, former Labour members and supporters, trade unionists, working people, campaigners and all those affected by unemployment and austerity to gather together to build a new movement for ordinary people.”

The Counter-conference will be open to the public, and will be hosted by NUI Galway’s ULA student society.

Some of the main events at the Counter-conference will include:

• ·      Securing our futures, Defending Education
• ·      IMF, ECB & International Financial System: demystifying the crisis
• ·      100 Years of Labour: Time for a new party of the working class?
• ·      Healthcare: Fighting for Survival
• ·      Creating Jobs and Defending Workers
• ·      Closing Rally: Defeating Austerity, Destroying the Treaty.

A number of fringe events will also occur, including:

• ·      Presentation: Ireland’s Debt Audit
• ·      Discussion: Red Policies for a Green Future
• ·      Briefing: The X Case and the Medical Treatment Bill 2012
• ·      Discussion: Austerity and its Impact on Women
• ·      Díospóireacht: An Ghaeilge agus an Eite Chlé.

All are welcome to attend some or all of the Counter-Conference, and further information can be found here , or by emailing ULA.Galway@gmail.com

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Wishing you all a Happy and Safe St Patrick’s Day wherever you are in the world from the Workers and Unemployed Action Group.

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A National Rally of the Campaign against the Household and Water taxes will take place on March 24th, in the National Stadium on the South Circular Rd, Dublin.  It is open to all, and there will be buses coming from right across the country.

This Assembly will bring together the campaign right across the country, and launch the final push before the registration deadline. Make sure to be there!

Book Your Place

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Séamus Healy TD and the Workers and Unemployed Action Group will hold public meetings on the Household and Septic Tank Charges at a number of venues this week:

Nenagh :
Abbey Court Hotel , Thursday 09 February at 8pm

Thurles:
Hayes Hotel, Friday 10 February at 8pm

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Irish Municipal Art Collections – Talk on 1st Dec at 7.30pm

South Tipperary County Council Arts Service and the County Museum are delighted to present Irish Municipal Art Collections, a talk by Dr Peter Jordan at the County Museum on Thursday 1st December at 7.30pm. Until his retirement in 2009, Dr. Peter Jordan was a Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Art at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). His main research interest is in the origins and development of the public art collection, and he has a number of publications on this subject, including, the ‘Origins of the Clonmel Municipal Art Collection’, Journal of the South Tipperary Historical Society, 2006, and most recently a history and catalogue of the Waterford Municipal Art Collection. Dr Jordan will be giving a talk on the origins and development of Irish Municipal Art Collections during the 1930s and 40s with reference to the South Tipperary County Museum Collection and the current exhibition Irish Women Artists of the 20th Century an exhibition drawn from The Niland Collection, and The Collection of South Tipperary County Museum presented in collaboration with The Model, home of The Niland Collection, Sligo. Artists in the exhibition include; Sarah Purser, Estella Solomons, Eva Hamilton, Mary Swanzy, Evie Hone, Mainie Jellett, Nano Reid, Norah McGuinness, Frances Kelly, Bea Orpen,  Dorothy Cross, Alice Maher, Marie Foley and Clare Langan.

For further information or to book contact Sally O’Leary Arts Officer,

Tel 052 6134565 or email sally.oleary@southtippcoco.ie

Marie Foley – Artist Talk

at South Tipperary County Museum on 7th Dec at 1.10pm

South Tipperary County Council Arts Service is delighted to present an artist talk by Marie Foley at the County Museum on Dec 7th at 1.10pm in conjunction with the exhibition Irish Women Artists of the 20th Century. The exhibition is drawn from The Niland Collection and The Collection of South Tipperary County Museum and is presented in collaboration with The Model, home of The Niland Collection, Sligo. It provides an opportunity to examine some of the changing themes and practices of women artist’s throughout the century to the present day. Artists in the exhibition include; Sarah Purser, Estella Solomons, Eva Hamilton, Mary Swanzy, Evie Hone, Mainie Jellett, Nano Reid, Norah McGuinness, Frances Kelly, Bea Orpen,  Dorothy Cross, Alice Maher, Marie Foley and Clare Langan.

Marie Foley is a sculptor. She was born in Kanturk and studied Fine Art at the Crawford College of Art, Cork, Goldsmiths College, London and Cardiff College of Art and was awarded an MA in 1987. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Ireland, England, Wales, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Holland, Hungary, Poland, Finland, Canada, USA and Japan. She was the first Irish Artist to have a solo Exhibition in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Public commissions include Kilkenny Castle, The Office of Public Works at 51-52, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, a sculpture for National Universities of Ireland Presentation to President Mary Robinson, Cothú Awards, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdrum County Council and Wilton Library, Cork. She has received various Arts Council awards. Other awards include an International Ceramic Award, a Canada Council award and The New Horizons Award from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She became a member of Aosdána in 1996. Marie Foley’s sculpture is composed of elements which are carved in yew, bog oak, ash, sycamore, elements which are modelled in porcelain, and sometimes additional hand-worked or salvaged elements in metal, stone etc. Her artistic practice is inspired by a profound interest in nature and the deeper universal significance of all. Her language is one of symbolic form.

For further information about the exhibition or to book for the talk please contact the Arts Service on 052 6134565 or email sally.oleary@southtippcoco.ie. Guided tours of the exhibition can be arranged for schools – groups wishing to visit the exhibition should contact the Arts Service.

Film Screening

County Museum Clonmel

Weds 7th Dec  – 7.30pm

To book contact 052 6134565

South Tipperary County Council Arts Service working in conjunction with Tipperary Libraries have been hosting a series of youth animation workshops at Clonmel library, participants will have the opportunity to show their work in a public screening taking place at South Tipperary County Museum. This is a chance for family and friends to celebrate the creativity of the young film-makers.

Sally O’Leary

Arts Officer

South Tipperary County Council

052 6134565

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