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🚨NEW VIDEO: Union busting happens when employers target workers who try to demand better at work.
It’s time for a new law to
#StopUnionBusting
‼️
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A
#CeasefireNow
banner has been raised on Liberty Hall to reflect the full support of SIPTU and the vast majority of the public in Ireland for an immediate halt to the ongoing atrocities in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel.
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Our baggage handler members in Dublin Airport proudly playing their part in unloading this special
#AerLingus
cargo from China.
Delivering much needed personal protective equipment to healthcare workers.
#FrontlineHeroes
one and all.
#COVID19ireland
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It would be impossible to fight
#Covid19
without cleaners.
#ourSIPTU
members are working day and night on the frontline to protect the people we love.
Thanks Svetlana & all
#FrontLineHeroes
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On a bright May morning 104 years ago, James Connolly, the acting General Secretary of our Union was shot dead.
"Men perish, but principles live."
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Thank you to all workers who are working on St. Patrick’s Day like Gabriel, a Deliveroo Rider and proud SIPTU member.
#StaySafe
#ProMaskProWorker
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The rioters & the people who orchestrated the events that unfolded in Dublin do not represent the people of the city.
As a trade union, we stand with the people & workers who build our communities, not those who seek to tear them apart & sow division.
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The
#FrontLineHeroes
keeping our hospitals clean.
#coronavirus
"If we weren't here, the place would come to a standstill, rooms would not be opening quick enough, doctors wouldn't be able to do there work, nurses wouldn't be able to do there work, it's a team effort.”
#COVID19
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Racism has no place on public transport, in workplaces, or anywhere in society.
#JoinUsOnTheJourney
#EndRacism
#ourSIPTU
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United we stand, divided we beg! RESPECT OUR NATIONAL WOMEN'S TEAM!
#irlwnt
#WorldPlayersUnited
#COYGIG
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Watch: President Michael D Higgins
#MayDay
message
“On this
#MayDay
let us commit to valuing those heroic workers who risk their lives and their security to support us."
#FrontLineHeroes
#InternationalWorkersDay
Full video here 👉
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“Men perish, but principles live.”
On a bright May morning 108 years ago, James Connolly, the acting General Secretary of our Union was shot dead.
Today, we honour and remember his memory and legacy in Arbour Hill.
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Dock workers are on the
#Covid_19
frontline. They keep essential goods, food & medical supplies coming into Ireland. 24/7.
This week,
#ourSIPTU
members in the Port of Cork took in over 6,000 container shipments. Amazing!
#COVID19ireland
Respect to all
#FrontLineHeroes
✊
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There are those who want to divide us, exploit us. But they are not the ones with the real power. We are…
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Racism has a corrosive effect in communities and workplaces.
Workers in Ireland must never fall into the trap of discrimination and division.
Join
#ourSIPTU
members at
#SpeakersUnicorner
this Saturday.
#UnicornsAssembling
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The Far Right doesn’t represent working people. Trade Unions do.
Huge
#StandTogether
march in Dublin today. 📢
Join the fight for a fairer society with homes, healthcare and better public services for all. Join a Trade Union.
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Today
#childcare
workers from across the country stood together in
#oneunitedvoice
to demand recognition, decent pay and respect!
This isn't the end, it's the start of something big!
Let us arise!
#ge2020
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Cleaners like Suzanne, Lisa, Svetlana & Josepha are on the frontline of our health services. They’ve risked their lives during
#COVID19
yet Contract Cleaning Companies are refusing to pay 40c an hour that’s due to them.
Pay
#FrontLineHeroes
what they’ve earned
#LateLateShow
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Join the march and
@ipsc48
rally.
📍Garden of Remembrance
⏱️ 1:00pm
📣
#CeasefireNow
📸 Now: Liberty Hall, Dublin.
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Get the facts on why Irish Rail workers are taking a stand.
#IarnrodEireann
#IrishRail
#railstrike
#IrishRailStrike
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🚨
#FireStrikes
update 🚨
Fire stations across the country have gone dark as retained fire fighters escalate industrial action.
Our members don’t want to be on strike but we have no choice.
Govt must get real and kickstart talks to resolve this dispute.
Nothing less will do.
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This May
#BankHolidayWeekend
marks the anniversary of pioneering trade unionist and Jacob’s Strike leader Rosie Hackett.
Rosie was a founding member of the Irish Women Workers’ Union.
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This is the Dublin we know and love. Working people bringing communities together.
#WeAreSIPTU
#Unionise
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Now: Liberty Hall lights up in solidarity with all the
#FrontlineHeroes
working night and day to keep our people healthy, to look after our sick and to keep our country moving.
#COVID2019
#WeWillGetThroughThis
#clapforourcarers
#COVID19ireland
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Workers, young families, women, students, travellers and pensioners. The housing emergency affects us all. To help bring this to an end, we must all stand together
This Saturday
#May18
join
@EmmetKirwan
@gracedyas
@frances_black
@DamoDempsey
for
#RaiseTheRoof
rally in Dublin.
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Gig for Gaza. Organised by the Musicians Union of Ireland and SIPTU. Fundraiser with proceeds to the Middle East Children’s Alliance.
Live on YouTube & Facebook on Monday from 8pm (GMT)
Links to donate during the event.
Spread the word
#GigforGaza
🇵🇸
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If the
#Coronavirus
Crisis has taught us anything it is that our warehouse and distribution workers are essential, they put the food on our plates.
#COVID19ireland
Respect to all our
#FrontlineHeroes
#ourSIPTU
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Members of SIPTU that work in the Irish Wheelchair Association on the picket lines in Clare, Galway and Kerry today.
Like and retweet to show your support.
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Today on the 74th anniversary of his death we celebrate the life of Jim Larkin.
Over a century ago, “Big” Jim organised workers to build collective power, to win trade union representation and to demand our working class have a voice.
We are proud to carry on that tradition.
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Historic vote on
#OccupiedTerritories
Bill to boycott
#SettlementGoods
has passed second stage in
#Seanad
An important and positive act of solidarity with the people of Palestine. 🇵🇸🇮🇪 ✊
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SIPTU welcomed
@Together4yes
Campaign Director,
@OrlaNWCI
to Liberty Hall today.
@SIPTU
is a Platform Member of Together for Yes.
@OrlaNWCI
briefed SIPTU's National Officers and members of the National Equality Committee on the
#repealthe8th
campaign.
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Cormac displayed all the hallmarks of a very capable organiser, combining his energy and passion to shape a better, fairer world with a natural ability to get things done and bring people together in the pursuit of fairness at work and justice in society.
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A message of solidarity from the legend Ricky Tomlinson for the Respect Transport Worker campaign.
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Our co-founder and Acting General Secretary of our union James Connolly united class, gender and anti-imperialist battles into one struggle. His vision for Ireland led to his execution by British forces on a bright May morning 105 years ago.
Never forgotten. Always remembered.
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"Irish Ferries, despite its name, refuses to fly the Irish flag on its ships because it would be required to pay seafarers the Irish national minimum wage.” -
@SIPTUunionmade
Jerry Brennan.
Support
#FairShipping
#FairTransport
@RMTunion
@ETFSeafarers
✊
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Now:
#OurCommunityIsNotForSale
protest kicking off in Dublin.
SIPTU and
@forsa_union_ie
members standing together to save jobs and services
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❝ Our members are demanding Deputy MacSharry withdraws his comments and puts an end to this kind of misleading rhetoric that only serves to divide public and private sector workers at a time when the recovery of the country requires unity and solidarity.
#FrontLineHeroes
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🚨 Breaking news | SIPTU members employed as retained firefighters will begin to resign from the service from the beginning of next week.
#FireStrikes
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We are now 9 days into our strike and we are not going away!
Today, we took our protest to the door of the Taoiseach in Wicklow.
We are demanding RESPECT for People with Disabilities and PROPER PAY for the people providing services for People with Disabilities.
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🚨 SIPTU retained firefighters responding to all major incidents and life threatening calls while we await outcome of WRC talks tomorrow.
📍Newbridge, Co Kildare.
Follow
#FireStrikes
for updates.
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Video: We need coherent, evidence-based policy, not a litany of assertions. Anything less will ignore the votes of so many people who opposed the increase in the pension age to 67 next year.
Any Programme for Government must
#Stop67
and establish a stakeholder forum on pensions
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9 out of 10 meat plant workers get no sick pay, many are on bogus self-employment contracts and walk a tightrope every day with the fear of getting infected with
#COVID19
We need a sector specific strategy for the meat industry with workers rights and decent pay at its centre.
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Racism has no place in our workplaces or communities.
We stand
#TogetherAgainstRacism
with all people fighting for fairness at work and justice in society.
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The Union makes us strong.
#TradeUnionWeek
Pre-sale now OPEN: Our 2024 third kit in partnership with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions
@betterinaunion
campaign.
Promoting the shared values of Bohs and the trade union movement.
“Our demands most moderate are – we only want the earth.”
👉
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The next government must recognise the value of high quality early childhood education and care for children, parents and society.
#InvestInEarlyYears
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Wishing workers everywhere a peaceful and Merry Christmas.🎄
To all workers keeping people safe and warm, maintaining public frontline and transport services and filling communities with festive spirit and joy this Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and every day. Thank you.
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We wish to express our deepest condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of the two health workers who died yesterday in Kilkenny.
May we always remember them.
#FrontLineHeroes
Ar dheis dé go raibh a n-anamacha dílse.
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Today SIPTU members demonstrated their support for the 800 P&O Ferries workers, who were sacked without notice last week.
Like and retweet to show your support.
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Tomorrow, we meet representatives from Meat Industry Ireland.
Our position is simple. Decent pay for all
#meatprocessing
workers, proper sick pay entitlements and working conditions that protect workers & communities are the best weapons we have to stop the spread of
#COVID19
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SIPTU members are not only on the frontline of our response to the
#coronavirus
but are the backbone of our society and economy.
#covid19
Thanks to all our cleaners like Linda in Cork University Hospital & working in essential services across the island.
#FrontLineHeroes
all.
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Up the cleaners!
Cleaners, like Lisa, are essential workers in our hospitals, shops factories and communities. Every day they are on the frontline in our collective effort to stop
#COVID19
#coronavirus
#FrontlineHeroes
one and all.
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NEW 🚨 | We believe that everyone who lives and works in Ireland has the right to secure and affordable housing.
People need hope. People need houses.
#RaiseTheRoof
#HomeForAll
🏘️
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DJ is a Guard
John is a Driver
Keith is a Depot Controller
Kevin is a Customer Service Officer
They keep our trains running!
Wearing a mask protects them.
Mask up for workers!
Protect each other at work
#JoinAUnion
#ProMaskProWorker
#StrongerTogether
@irishcongress
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🚨 Sunday Read | Only a leftwing government will solve the
#housingcrisis
“Our humanity cannot be measured by mere profit margins or dividends, the right to have a home, to have hope, is a fundamental one, and should never be bartered for private gain.”
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🚨 Retained firefighters are striking tomorrow to resolve the staffing crisis that is threatening to collapse this essential community resource entirely.
The public are behind us
#FireStrikes
It’s time for local and national Government to step up.
#SummerOfSolidarity
☀️
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Video: "I have worked at this plant for more than 40 years and the average length of service is more than 20 years. To lockout such a workforce which has provided such loyal long-term service is a disgrace."
#ourSIPTU
#SKbiotek
#lockout
@ConnectUnion
@DarraghOBrienTD
@loreillysf
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SIPTU is proud to host today’s Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland gathering. The direct provision system is inhumane and needs to end. We support the call to reform the
#righttowork
so that people can access decent jobs.
@masi_asylum
#MasiConference
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Sunday Read: "It is important that we come out in large numbers on
#oct3rd
to
#raisetheroof
for immediate action that puts the public interest ahead of those who are profiting from the lack of social and affordable housing..."
#marian
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Every X-ray and CT scan performed on positive or suspected
#COVID
ー19 patients is conducted by our Radiographers.
#OurSIPTU
Radiographers play a crucial hands on role stopping the spread of the
#coronavirus
#FrontLineHeroes
one and all.
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Our banner seeks to demonstrate the strength of support of the people of Ireland for a ceasefire and highlight the urgent need to tackle what is now a humanitarian catastrophe.”
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People with long working lives or those who have worked in arduous jobs should be entitled to retire at 65 and receive the equivalent of the full State pension.
Give workers a choice.
#Stop67
#FairandFlexiblePensionsforAll
#twip
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Pharmaceutical workers manufacture the inhalers treating
#COVID19
patients the world over. They can make the difference between life and death.
Workers and
#ourSIPTU
members like Brian are essential.
Respect our
#FrontlineHeroes
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SIPTU Members placed pickets at Lisk Ireland Ltd in Gort, Co Galway at 8am this morning in pursuit of collective bargaining rights and improved terms and conditions, in compliance with the Labour Courts Recommendation.
✊ Like and retweet to show your support!
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A toxic combination of bad jobs, low wages, spiralling prices, and a housing crisis is pushing people towards seeking to
#Unionise
Today, with
@issu4u
we launched
#RespectAtWork
to make this happen and help turn the tide on this Low-Wage Republic.
It’s time to demand better.
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The roof of Liberty Hall is lit up tonight in solidarity with people fighting for climate justice worldwide.
As trade unionists we must use our collective strength to keep up the pressure and build a
#justtransition
for workers and communities.
Nothing less will do.
#COP26
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We are calling on TDs and Senators from all political parties to support our demand for the immediate and complete removal of 67 from the Social Welfare and Pensions Act.
This is the only way to ensure that the pension age doesn’t increase to 67 on New Year’s Day.
#Stop67
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❝ With
#Covid19
restrictions easing, more people returning to work, bus workers need everyone to respect the public health guidelines and the measures in place to stop the spread of the Coronavirus & keep all of us safe.
- David Hallahan, Bus Driver,
#Cork
#FrontlineHeroes
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Laundry workers are essential workers!
Providing a constant supply of sterile scrubs to the frontline is critical in the national effort to stop the spread of the
#coronavirus
#FlattenTheCurve
#COVID19
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This gig economy has created huge wealth for big bosses while many workers are struggling to make ends meet.
Working together we can win the same rights for delivery and platform workers as every other worker in Ireland. 🇮🇪
Join us 👉
#Rights4Riders
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SIPTU members are taking to the streets of Cork demanding a radical change of housing policy.
#RaiseTheRoof
The
#HousingCrisis
will continue to spiral out of control unless we see a real change in housing policy and treat housing as a human right!
We need
#HomesForAll
now! 🏘️
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📸SIPTU stands in solidarity with the Union of Students in Ireland’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Walk Out.
#USIWalkout
#USISIPTU
#strongertogether
#costoflivingcrisis
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Video: Thousands of
#ourSIPTU
members are taking action and going on strike tomorrow for
#payjustice
✊
If you're near a picket, drop by and show health workers your support and drop us a tweet
#payjusticestrike
Full list of hospitals on strike here ➡️
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Huge crowd of students and young workers gathering in Cork for
#schoolstrike4climate
SIPTU wholeheartedly supports
#climatestrike
There’s no jobs on a dead plant. 🌎
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“Men perish, but principles live.”
107 years ago today, our Acting General Secretary, James Connolly was executed by British forces in Kilmainham Gaol.
Connolly was one of the founders of our great movement. He remains a shining light of hope for people all over the world.
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We are joined by a large group of SIPTU members and activists at the
#RaiseTheRoof
Rally for Housing today.
We need secure, affordable
#HomesForAll
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Our new Limerick Soviet Centenary commemorative banner on display for the people of
#Limerick
for the first time on today’s St Patrick’s Day Parade
#LimerickStPatsFestival
#StParticksDay
#ourSIPTU
@LimerickSoviet
#100years
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On this day 99 years ago, James Connolly, the acting General Secretary of our Union was shot dead
#1916
- RIP
http://t.co/i2dJR9FMEh
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Flying start to
#RaiseTheRoof
phone bank this evening in Liberty Hall. ☎️
We'll be calling
#OurSIPTU
members right up until
#May18
to mobilise support for the next
#RaiseTheRoof
rally in Dublin. 🏘️
The message is clear.
#HousingCrisis
is an
#LE19
#EUelections2019
issue!
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Now: SIPTU members working in Local Employment Services and Job Clubs outside Fine Gael think-in.
The Minister must break her silence and live up to the commitment she made to engage with us.
#OurCommunityIsNotForSale
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The Union makes us strong!
#OtD
in 1990, SIPTU is established with the merger of Ireland’s two largest unions, the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and the Federated Workers' Union of Ireland.
#WeAreSIPTU
#Unionise
#OBU
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🚨 Update | Retained Firefighters strike from midnight for a better deal and to safeguard the future of the service.
The fire service recruitment & retention crisis means this essential community resource is under threat.
Only solutions, not soundbites will end
#FireStrikes
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We give blood, sweat and tears to the job.
We do the same work as people in the HSE but for less pay. Why are Section 39 workers being treated so differently?
- Health Care Assistant and SIPTU shop steward Martha Buckley asks
@RTEUpfront
panel.
#SaveOurServices
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Transport workers keep Ireland moving.
Bus Éireann drivers, like Richard in Waterford, provide public transport for essential workers to get to the frontline.
#FrontLineHeroes
#FlattenTheCurve
#COVID19
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Workers from Tara Mines attended a meeting with Oireachtas members in Leinster House today.
👷♂️✊
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