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Trade Union Solidarity With Ukraine in Ireland – Activity of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) – by Sandra Corrigan, Global Development Officer (INTO)

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Irish Left With Ukraine (ILWU) held a very fruitful meeting on Tuesday 24 March 2026 in the Teachers Club (which is associated with the INTO)

Sandra Corrigan, Global Solidarity Officer of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation, described international solidarity work for teachers and children, including a solidarity fund, emergency supplies, trauma support, and advocacy that helped secure teacher salary increases for 2025–2026. Ukrainian teacher union reports emphasised the prolonged conflict and an education crisis.

Kateryna Maliuta- Osaulova of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers TUEWSU Ukraine, worked with Sandra on this report.

Sandra’s extensive report is available here :

These issues will also be addressed at the next ILWU public meeting on April 21 2026 at 7.30pm in the Teachers’ Club 36 Parnell Square West.

Details are here :

Public Meeting

Why we need solidarity with Ukraine

Speakers:

Mick Antoniw (Labour party Member of the Senedd [Welsh Assembly]; co-founder of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, England & Wales)

Anatoliy Primakov (Ukrainian Action Ireland)

Sinéad Gibney TD (Social Democrats)

Kevin Donoghue (Campaigns Officer, FÓRSA trade union)

Chairperson :

Nóirín Greene, ex-member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Executive

Time: 7:30pm

Date: Tuesday 21st April 2026

Place: Teachers Club 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1 D01 T6V6

To participate via zoom link, please email: irishleftwithukraine@gmail.com

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Why we need solidarity with Ukraine – Public Meeting, Teachers Club Parnell Square, Dublin 1 D01T6V6, Tuesday April 212026, 7.30pm

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Public Meeting

Why we need solidarity with Ukraine

Speakers:

Mick Antoniw (Labour party Member of the Senedd [Welsh Assembly]; co-founder of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, England & Wales)

Anatoliy Primakov (Ukrainian Action Ireland)

Sinéad Gibney TD (Social Democrats)

Kevin Donoghoe (Campaigns Officer, FÓRSA trade union)

Chairperson :

Nóirín Greene, ex-member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Executive

Time: 7:30pm

Date: Tuesday 21st April 2026

Place: Teachers Club 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1 D01 T6V6

To participate via zoom link, please email: irishleftwithukraine@gmail.com by 19th April

On the Warpath Against Immigrants – Sinn Féin’s Wicklow-Wexford Teachta Dála Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin

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Here is pictorial evidence justifying a stark headline :

We republish one comment which sums up the appalling news :

You should be ashamed of yourself. Bet you’re going to mass on Sunday praising a white washed Middle Eastern man who told you of all things you should help a stranger. Is that Sinn Féins new policy? No wonder the younger members leave in droves.Mary Lou McDonald – Sinn Féin that’s the reason right here

We have a policy on this site of refusing to publish links with sites full of racist poison. The facebook site of Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin TD (Sinn Féin, Wicklow-Wexford) easily qualifies for this prohibition.

Is the racist policy of Fionntán Ó Súilleabhán TD an isolated Sinn Sinn Féin example?

The answer to this question is a resounding No.

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