Donal has campaigned for an emergency job creation scheme to be launched by the Assembly Executive and has assisted young people in Fermanagh to fight against tuition fees and cuts to education. He has also worked intimately with community activists in both Protestant and Catholic estates and towns in Fermanagh and is currently organizing the Stop the Cuts Campaign in the county.
Donal spoke to socialistpartyni.net “There is a major vacuum in politics. Many people are completely turned off by the sectarian parties who depend on resorting to finger-pointing and stirring up sectarian division to in reality deflect attention from their role in making very damaging cuts to services. They are united in implementing cuts – none of them are prepared to take a principled stand by refusing to make the cuts.
“I am determined to build mass opposition to the cuts agenda of the main parties and feel that can be greatly boosted by winning a seat on Fermanagh District Council – this time to unite the entire community against the attacks being carried out by the main parties who have failed to create jobs in Enniskillen. I am getting a lot of support from people on the ground who want to see real change, not more of the same.”
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Many "Old Labour" workers and socialists will be saddened at the death of Michael Foot and will see it as signifying the death of an era.
With harsher spending cuts in the pipeline, the Assembly’s current batch of cutbacks are already hitting schools and other educational facilities hard in East Belfast. In July, with construction set to begin, the Education Minister Caitriona Ruane announced that Strandtown Primary School would not be getting the new school building it was promised years ago.
On 1st October, Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) activists started a 330 mile march from Jarrow to London.