Cork County Board has tried to defuse the row but the Socialist Workers Party is adamant that the flag is both insulting and demeaning to those from specific cultural backgrounds.

Just a year and a half after the abduction of the previous Grundig chief in Northern Ireland, Thomas Niedermeyer, whose body ...

Irish political leader Sean Garland helped transform republicanism from its narrow nationalist outlook into a much broader socialist movement, mourners said. The former Workers’ Party president ...

By 1982, the party had dropped the ‘Sinn Féin’ completely and were known as the Workers’ Party. They had seven TDs elected in the Republic of Ireland in 1989 and 21 councillors in 1991.