Join Labour Youth!

Posted on September 16, 2013October 17, 2013 by labyouth

It’s that time of year again – Labour Youth are recruiting in colleges all over the country! To get involved in the largest and most active progressive political youth movement in the coun... Read More

Remembering the 1913 Lock Out, one hundred years on.

Posted on September 3, 2013 by labyouth

Ciara Galvin is a member of Kildare North Labour Youth. She has a degree in History and Politics from NUI Maynooth and works as a free lance journalist. She previously worked as a parliamentary assist... Read More

Labour Youth Calls for Dublin Bus to remain in public ownership

Posted on August 11, 2013August 11, 2013 by labyouth

Labour Youth are demanding that Dublin Bus be kept in public ownership, after a statement from Young Fine Gael demanded the service be privatised. Labour Youth National Chairperson, Aideen Carberry sa... Read More

Last year members of Labour Youth with Aodhán Ó Ríordáin TD presented the Norwegian Ambassador with 77 roses to mark each life lost at the AUF summer camp in Utoya in 2011

Labour Youth marks second anniversary of Utoya shootings

Posted on July 22, 2013July 23, 2013 by labyouth

This morning, representatives of Labour Youth members presented 77 roses to the Norwegian Ambassador to Ireland, to mark the second anniversary of the horrific 2011 attacks which took the lives of six... Read More

European Youth Guarantee Update

Posted on July 4, 2013July 4, 2013 by labyouth

Labour Youth has for over a year now been working with Labour Party MEPs and TDs, the Young European Socialists and youth organisations in Ireland to secure a Youth Guarantee for Europe. The crisis ... Read More

Youth Guarantee agreement brokered

Posted on February 28, 2013April 8, 2013 by labyouth

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton T.D., has brokered agreement on an EU-wide Youth Guarantee. Once implemented, the Guarantee will assure young people under the age of 25 a good quality ... Read More

Gilmore: “It was Ireland that was wrong, not you.”

Posted on February 20, 2013February 20, 2013 by labyouth

Yesterday, the party leader Eamon Gilmore apologised to the survivors of the Magdalene Laundries. You can view his speech below or read the text by clicking on the link below. Full Text ... Read More

Action Plan on Bullying

Posted on January 30, 2013July 21, 2015 by labyouth

Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn yesterday launched Ireland’s first ever national plan to tackle bullying. The Action Plan on Bullying sets out a series of actions on how to sta... Read More

We need a European Youth Guarantee NOW!

Posted on January 23, 2013January 25, 2013 by labyouth

The campaign 5.5 million young people are currently unemployed in Europe and an additional 1.5 million are forced into precarious jobs. In some countries as many as one young person out of two cannot ... Read More

South Africa: Democratic state, apartheid economy. By Lisa Connell

Posted on January 16, 2013January 16, 2013 by labyouth

Written by Lisa Connell, Policy and Education Officer. The formal end of apartheid in 1990 was of huge significance internationally. Wide-scale boycotts of South African products were held throughout ... Read More