We were invited over by LABO (An abbreviation of laboratory and acronym in Dutch: Learning, Acting, Moving and Organising) a community training group and ‘social action stimulator’, to be keynote speakers at their Critical Citizenship Day event. The evening prior, LABO took us to the city of Ghent, a 30 …
CATU News – Week 42 A spectre is haunting landlords: The spectre of organised communities! With that in mind, plans are afoot for a Halloween themed Week of Action on housing and the cost of living. Branches and groups across the island will be running events – and you can …
CATU News – Week 41, 2022 With spooky season well and truly underway, what could be spookier for those in power than confident, strongly organised communities? The National Campaigns group met on Wednesday evening to plan for a Co-Living House of Horrors at the end of the month – as …
This article originally appeared in SIPTU’s Liberty newspaper in February 2024. Members of the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) have secured a series of improvements for tenants in Davitt House in Drimnagh following a nine month protest campaign and a meeting with Dublin City Council executives in December 2023. CATU …
The landlords in Exchange Hall, Tallaght have recently begun to issue eviction notices in a staggered manner to the tenants living there. Tenants include a wide variety of people from different backgrounds, including nurses in Tallaght hospital who work with children and in the ICU unit. The justification used for …
