Quinn Insurance

Quinn Insurance and the Quinn Group in general are major employers in Ireland.  We are currently in the midst of a jobs crisis and the Government has its head in the sand on the issue.

We cannot afford anymore job losses and therefore the administration process at Quinn Insurance must prioritise the maintenance of jobs and their viability into the future.




Quinn workers protest at Leinster House

Youth Unemployment is a problem for everyone

One in four young people are now unemployed. At the start of 2010 the number of those unemployed under the age of 25 in the Twenty-Six Counties had reached 85,000, an increase of almost 150% in a year. Young men are worst affected, with one in three men under the age of 25 now being out of work.

Welfare payments for young people have been slashed and it is estimated that 60,000 people emigrated in the last year.

The government clearly has no strategy to keep young people in Ireland and use their skills to rebuild the economy. 

Sinn Féin believes that if the government doesn’t act to tackle soaring youth unemployment, this will have huge implications for the economy and for society into the future.  

canvassing on youth unemployment at the weekend

Sinn Féin’s proposals to deal with unemployment among young people include:

• A youth jobs fund to create 20,000 new jobs at a cost of €500 million;
• An individual plan for the long term prospects of every person under 25 who is on the live register;
• 2,000 places on a ‘One More Language Scheme’ to give the young unemployed a chance to learn an extra foreign language at a cost of €20million;
• 5,000 free ECDL advanced places at a cost of €25 million;
• 10,000 new CE places at a cost of €168 million;
• 1,000 places on conversion courses at third level to help graduates convert their skills to potential growth sectors at a cost of €15 million;
• 8 measures to treble the number of under 25’s who are self employed including a national entrepreneurship programme, access to credit and greater support for high potential start ups;
• Create a publicly owned green tech firm for Ireland and initiate a major drive to attract FDI in renewable energy at a cost of €100 million;
• Make Ireland a digital media leader through support for skills, infrastructure and entrepreneurship;
• A ‘National Development Scheme’ to employ people directly on public works projects employing 2,000 workers at a cost of approx €100 million;

Save our Swimming Pool

IRISH TIMES Saturday April 10th
(click to read)

There will be a protest against the threatened cut to the Sean MacDermott Street Swimming Pool on Monday April 12th at 6PM at City Hall, Parliament Street, Dublin 2.

 The proposal to close Seán MacDermott Street community swimming pool is a disgrace.

I will be present at the protest against the threatened cut at City Hall on Monday.
It's ironic that the City Council would seek to close a community swimming pool in the year that Dublin is the European Capital of Sport.
This swimming pool is one of very few sports facilities for families and young people in the North Inner City.The City Management and those Councillors who support this cut to the Council budget are letting the community down.

When Dublin City Council was flush with cash the people of the North Inner City were  promised that Seán MacDermott Street pool would be refurbished to the standard of a fully equipped Leisure Centre. Now we are being told that the money is gone and that the pool must close.

This is is disgrace. The people of the North Inner City should not be treated like second class citizens.

Dé Luain Aibreán 5 

North Inner City Folklore Project Honours 1916 Heroes

Start Time: 12:00

Easter Monday Commemoration

The North Inner City Folklore Project will unveil a plaque to Captain Sean Connolly of the Citizen Army killed at Easter 1916.

The commemoration will take the following forms:-

1 At Liberty Hall, 12 noon, a pageant will take place which will include the unfurling of the flag which the Citizen Army hoisted a week before the Rising.

2 The assembled gathering, including relatives of the 1916 leaders, will then march to Sean MacDermott Street led by pipers and a colour party. At 58/59 Sean MacDermott Street Lower, where the house of Captain Sean Connolly once stood, a plaque will be unveiled to his memory and also to celebrate the memory of Molly O Reilly. Captain Sean Connolly, a member of the Citizen Army, was killed in action at City Hall on Easter Monday.

3 After the ceremony a photographic exhibition of Ireland’s fight for independence 1916 – 1923 will be held in the nearby Community Hall at Killarney Court.

North Inner City Folklore Project, Dublin

C/o ICRG 57 Amiens Street, Dublin 1. Telephone 087 921 0673

Some pictures of previous years