People Before Profit Galway

23/10/2026

Galway West by-election winner also voted to remove the triple lock and set Ireland on a course where his party and like-minded vultures can tether the country to wars waged by empire.

23/10/2026

We emailed NationalParentsCouncil to ask for more information, as Hildegarde Naughton refuses to answer emails or calls, and we have not received confirmation of receipt of our FOI request to the An Roinn Oideachais agus Óige: Department of Education and Youth. Email:

Hi,

The National Parents Council appears to have attended a conference which took place in Galway called “Education in the Age of AI: Building Europe’s Digital Future”.

There was no venue shared and no list of attendees. We have tried calling and emailing the Minister for Education and Youth Hildegarde Naughton, but received no response.

We have also submitted an FOI request to the department itself.

We’re wondering if you could provide a little more information about the content, speakers and venue, and maybe offer a plausible explanation as to why matters of national and public interest relating to AI and education were discussed behind closed doors without wider public engagement?

Looking forward to your reply.

Regards,

22/10/2026

PBP Condemns University of Galway for calling Gardai to disperse students

People Before Profit Galway have condemned the University of Galway for calling the Gardai to disperse nine students who were peacefully protesting the university’s contract with Coca Cola.

The protestors, comprising members of both the University of Galway Palestine Solidarity Society and the Student Union, handed university President David Burn a letter iterating their demands.

When Burns failed to commit to ending the contract, the students exercised their democratic right to a nonviolent sit-in protest outside President Burn’s office. In response, President Burn called Gardai to disperse the students, with 5-10 Gardai arriving to threaten students with criminal charges and physical action, forcing the students to rejoin the protest outside.

Expressing incredulity and anger, PBP Rep Denman Rooke pointed out that “Rather than engage with the students, whom he is meant to be serving and protecting, and rather than upholding respect for human rights, President David Burns opted to call the Gardai in blatant disregard for their right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly”.

“The fact that this follows the university’s mulish refusal to sever ties with Technion, the government’s assault on the Triple Lock, and the Department for Youth and Education’s holding of secretive conferences in Galway focused on the embedding of AI in education, is emblematic of a deeply worrying authoritarian turn in our public institutions and governance”.

To their credit, the students asserted their commitment to their demands, which are:

A release from the current contract with Coca-Cola, a company that operates in occupied Palestine and is therefore complicit in war crimes
Student representation on any tendering board for future exclusivity agreements for drinks on campus
A commitment to human rights obligations aligned with the BDS Movement in any tendering requirements

22/10/2026

Noel Grealish TD Deputy John Connolly Albert Dolan Hildegarde Naughton all engaged in a distinctly authoritarian process of trying to destroy Ireland’s neutrality so that the country can become embroiled in foreign wars, endangering all our lives.

21/10/2026

The Government of Ireland voted to abolish the triple lock today, ensuring that whenever they need to, they can attach Irish soldiers to foreign wars. Meanwhile Hildegarde Naughton is ensuring that your children are being fed into the AI machine through education. This not a democracy.

20/10/2026

If you do not call Deputy John Connolly and Albert Dolan tomorrow and demand that they abstain from voting, the triple lock will be scrapped and the vultures in Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael will leave this country and its children to the mercy of arms dealers, war mongers, imperialists and psychopaths.

19/10/2026

Fantastic talks from Richard Boyd Barrett TD & Emma Bally tonight about how hope is a revolutionary act which can’t be done alone. We need to organise and mobilise. One of the most striking points raised by Emma was how the two-tier bureaucracy of the business unions we currently have is why union leadership were allowed to call off the strikes without any democratic input from union members. YOU need to challenge those who would represent you.

19/10/2026

TONIGHT at 6:30pm Ol’55. Dare to dream of a better future, instead of watching our world be driven off a cliff.

19/10/2026