RSYM Galway

23/04/2026

16/04/2026

IRSP Leinster new page is up and running!

15/04/2026

' The Working Poor '

As of March 2026, an estimated 148,561 people in Ireland are in employment but living in poverty.

Between 10% and 12% of working families have had to avail of the local food banks, as every cent earned has been spent on keeping a roof over their families heads, leaving them unable to feed their families.

Taniste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris stated yesterday that the government agreed to sell more than half of its shares in PTSB bank for €931 million for the state upon settlement.
Simon Harris also states it will be held within the exchequer, while he examines how best to use it, considering how much they have wasted, we say they are not fit to decide on how it should be used, the people of Ireland should decide.
So far the state has collected €22.6 billion in taxes in the first quarter of this year, our hard working money!!!

This money could build the homes needed for the 17,000 plus homeless people.
This money could pay for much needed doctors and nurses.
This money could pay for child and adolescent psychiatrists.
There's a lot this money could be doing to help the people of Ireland to live and work in better conditions, with better pay.

Instead the government chooses to put the people's money into investment funds under the guise of Ireland's future.

That's an absolute kick in the teeth to those who can't see a future here in Ireland.

Young people leave because they can't find adequate accommodation or work, they are our future !!!
Local businesses can't see a future, as their bills and taxes are just not feasible to pay, when no income comes in, and the taxes keep rising !!!
Working Poor families can't see a future without debt hanging over them !!!

We demand that the government stand down, as they are very clearly incapable of their doing the jobs they are paid for and elected to do.
The government won't be worrying about our predicaments when they go home at night, nor will they go to bed hungry.

Time to go Taoiseach Michael Martin and take Simon Harris and your members with you.

09/04/2026

09/04/2026

The IRSP in Galway welcome the news that the Galway Ring Road has been granted approval.

For too long Galway has been the epicentre of some of the worst traffic in not just Ireland but Europe as a whole. Galway ranks just below Dublin nationally for traffic and often ranks in the top 10% globally for traffic.

The traffic situation in Galway seriously puts the town at risk of losing business and tourism as getting into Galway via the N17, N84, N59 and N6 can often take 1-2 hours, with the Tuam and Headford roads being especially bad for traffic.

People have wanted a ring road for 20 years and the plans have been constantly shelved, denied and stalled on by local and national government. This has led to the traffic situation getting worse as the plans for the ring road get put through limbo for various reasons.

With the news that it will finally go ahead. The Galway IRSP are cautiously optimistic that these plans will be committed to as the government’s track record has shown they can say one thing and either do the opposite or nothing at all.

Much like the Athenry-Claremorris railway line’s reopening. We will be keeping a keen eye out for updates on Galway Ring Road developments.

09/04/2026

The RSYM proudly represented in the James Hope Memorial Flute Band (Belfast) Colour Party on Easter Sunday🤝🚩

Onwards & Upwards!

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17/03/2026

Happy Paddy’s Day

16/03/2026

The IRSP in Dublin and surrounding counties have set up a new page.

The Irish Republican Socialist Party was formed in 1974 by republicans, socialists and trade unionists who believed the class struggle and the Irish national question are one in the same.

11/03/2026

The RSYM Announce Our Own Version Of The Sunburst Flag.☀️🚩

Expect To See Our Sunburst Flag In Action In The Near Future.

Let The Fight Go On, Saoirse Go Deo🇮🇪🚩

28/02/2026

Join us in Belfast on the 5th of April for our Easter Sunday commemoration.

Assemble @ Dunville Park, Falls Road at 11am

Bígí linn! ✊🏻🇮🇪🚩

25/02/2026

The IRSP notes that renewed calls have recently been made for the PSNI to return to the 50/50 recruitment strategy originally implemented following recommendations by the Independent Commission on Policing in 1998. We welcome the fact that criticism of the Police Service of Northern Ireland is now unavoidable. For years, republican and working-class communities warned that the force had not been meaningfully reformed from the Royal Ulster Constabulary. We were dismissed. We were told reform had worked. We were told to “move on.”

However, we do not believe that a return to 50/50 recruitment addresses the core issues that continue to undermine support for and the legitimacy of the PSNI. Representation alone cannot remedy what are clear systemic failures. Changing the religious composition of recruits does not dismantle institutional culture. It does not end political policing. It does not stop the harassment of republicans. It does not deliver justice to legacy families. And it does not address the systemic failures exposed time and again within the force. Communities continue to experience intrusive stop-and-search practices, surveillance, and disproportionate attention, while genuine criminality is ignored.

The reforms flowing from the Good Friday Agreement and the Patten process were presented as a historic transformation. Two decades on, we see the limits of that compromise. Cosmetic change replaced structural accountability.

We continue to witness a two-tiered approach to policing in which MI5 operates beyond any meaningful democratic scrutiny. Families face obstruction and delay while seeking truth and justice in legacy cases. Women and girls are repeatedly failed by the force, with an internal disciplinary system that shields wrongdoing rather than confronting it.

Yet some political parties continue to stand over this system, defending and legitimising it while asking their communities to place their faith in it once more. That position is now indefensible. Supporting a return to 50/50 recruitment while ignoring the structural failures of policing amounts to political cover, not reform.

What is required is not the recycling of a policy from two decades ago, but a fundamental break with the political policing model that continues to operate in the North. The IRSP calls for the full removal of MI5 from any future role in policing; an end to the harassment and surveillance of republican activists; full transparency and cooperation in legacy cases; a total overhaul of disciplinary mechanisms; and a policing model rooted in genuine community accountability rather than British security priorities.

Our community deserves more than symbolic fixes. Anything less is simply managing decline.