Democracy denied

Once again we have seen over the last week the wheeling and dealing going on behind closed doors and tonight will see the continuation of the 30 year old pact between Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Labour Party. This pact determines not only who will wear the Lord Mayor's chain for the next five years, but the membership and chairmanship of every City Council and nomination of members to external bodies.

Tonight instead of a democratic election at City Hall, representing the new composition of the City Council, we will see the same old anti-democratic pact in action. The outcome is a foregone conclusion and was decided not in the June 5th election but in secretive meetings between the three biggest parties with the view to excluding all others as much as possible from committees even though those "others" now make up 30% of the council.

The leader of the Labour Party Eamon Gilmore has very publicly sought to distance his party from Fianna Fáil and present his party as a radical alternative to Brian Cowen's party yet here in Cork we will see 7 Labour Party councillors voting with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael tonight to exclude left-wing councillors from committees and ensuring the election of Fianna Fáil councillors instead. So much for a radicalised Labour Party.

As an elected councillor I will actively oppose not only this undemocratic pact, but the continuing waste of public money on junkets and extravagance at a time when the City Council has cut back on key services in order to save money.

Thank You!

I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to the people of the North East Ward for expressing their confidence in me by electing me to Cork City Council as a Workers' Party councillor.


There are very many people to whom I am grateful for their help and support during the local elections.

As a local councillor for the North East Ward I promise to do my very best on behalf of the people who elected me and indeed all the citizens of the area.

All my election posters were removed by the deadline on last Friday, 13th June. However if our postering team missed any of them I would appreciate if you could give me a call on (086) 1908281 and I will see to it that the offending poster is removed immediately.

Should you wish to contact me concerning any issue please do not hesitate to contact me at the numbers given below or by e-mail to tedtynan@gmail.com

Once again, sincere thanks


Councillor Ted Tynan

A Message from Ted Tynan

The local elections which take place on June 5th come at a time of unprecedented economic and social crisis in Ireland. The country has been brought to the brink of bankruptcy by speculators developers and most of all the banks and political establishment parties. We have had 12 years of continuous government by Fianna Fáil and the current Fianna Fáil / Green Party coalition has continued to feed a culture of of corruption at the highest levels of Irish society.

At the same time the health service, education and other essential services and those who depend on them have suffered greatly. Now that the crisis is biting hard it is once again the most vulnerable who are being told to take the pain while the super-rich get off scot free and are even rewarded for their theft of Irish resources.

Locally in Cork we have growing unemployment, a housing crisis with 5,000 families on the City Council waiting list while hundreds of corporation houses lie idle and often vandalised. Official statistics show that even at the height of the Celtic Tiger there continued to be an unemployment crisis in the Mayfield area. Now that the economy is in crisis, local unemployment in this area has sky-rocketed. There is a better way.

As a candidate in the local elections for the Workers Party, I will be demanding the following:-

• A major programme of genuinely affordable houses and an end to the boarding up of houses. Instead they should be immediately brought up to standard and allocated to those on the City Council's housing waiting list.


• An end to cuts in education, health and disability services.


• Proper local amentities, particularly for young people, and the preservation of important green spaces such as the Glen Park and river valley, playing field at Tinker's Cross and the Tank Field.


• Mobile phone masts must be kept a safe distance from homes, schools and people's workplaces.


• Greater efforts to deal with an prevent Anti-Social Behaviour and more effort into community policing.


• An end to the junket culture at City Hall, with vital resources going to meet the needs of the city and its people, not developers and speculators.

My record of opposition to Service Charges is well known in this area. I will continue to oppose this unjust form of double taxation of PAYE workers and will actively fight against the re-introduction of water charges and privatisation of services.

As a Workers Party candidate and a socialist I stand for workers and their families, including retired and unemployed workers and young people.

Do you require help with a problem related to housing, your rights and entitlements or local issues in the North East Ward?

Please Contact me at:

Telephone: 4503481 (home) / (086) 1908281 (mobile)

E-mail: tedtynan@gmail.com

If you would like to help out in my election campaign or to join the Workers Party please contact me at the above numbers or my Director of Elections, Sean McCarthy on (086) 8360503.

Visit the Workers Party website www.workerspartyireland.net