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category sligo | worker & community struggles and protests | news report author Monday May 07, 2007 15:21author by Harry Pearse Report this post to the editors

The latest news from Sligo and the North West is that the Rabbitte wing of Labour/SIPTU is trying to prepare a case to justify expelling Declan Bree from SIPTU.

Labour Head office and the McGarry wing of the party in Sligo are hell bent on taking Bree to task ever since he publicly embarrassed the party leader and the party establishment following the shambles of the disciplinary hearing they established to deal with him last year.

McGarry’s buddy and director of elections John McCarrick, (Sligo branch Secretary of SIPTU) is pressing the Sligo SIPTU branch committee to commence proceedings so as Bree will be expelled from the union.

By all accounts McCarrick and McGarry hate Bree with a vengeance.

When Bree launched his website declanbree.com at the beginning of the year, the first story he posted “No Room at the Inn for Sligo Pensioner” related to a pensioner who was refused lunch in a local geriatric hospital on Christmas Day. Bree strongly criticised the HSE and described the decision to refuse the meal to the pensioner as unacceptable and unchristian. see: http://www.declanbree.com/news-currentissues/

Bree’s criticism of the HSE drew a sharp response from John McCarrick in the local media. McCarrick said that the Union was calling on Bree to withdraw his remarks.

However Bree in a head to head debate with McCarrick on local radio not only refused to withdraw the remarks but repeated them. As a socialist Bree said he had a duty to speak out against injustice wherever he came across it. He said as an elected representative he would not be silenced just because HSE management happened to be members of trade unions.

McCarrick had expected that the Sinn Fein people on the SIPTU branch committee would jump at the chance to take action against Bree. But it now appears that they have no intention of siding with the McGarry wing of Labour against Bree. McCarrick is now in a stew as to whether to proceed with the case to expel Bree.

Last year when the labour party establishment organised a disciplinary hearing against Bree because he criticised labour councillors (including McGarry) for voting against the Sligo Traveller Accommodation Programme, Bree turned the tables on the establishment when he told the media about the matter and exposed the shortcomings of the hearing

At the time travellers picketed Labour Headquarters in support of Bree. He put the party establishment through the hoops, even to the extent of having the National Executive Committee of the Party meet on two separate occasions to consider his case. In the end the majority of the members of the NEC refused to take any action against Bree.

I figure Bree would look really forward to putting McCarrick and the HSE management through the hoops on the issue of the pensioner being refused a meal on Christmas Day

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
 1   Shame on the SIPTU Suits     P Lynch    Mon May 07, 2007 15:45 
 2   Are you serious?     SF/SIPTU head    Mon May 07, 2007 16:23 
 3   bree in siptu     red back under the bed    Mon May 07, 2007 19:21 
 4   Under Pressure to Deliver     Sally Boyle    Mon May 07, 2007 20:30 
 5   Will Bree ever cop himself on?     LP Member    Mon May 07, 2007 20:44 
 6   Well done     K. Hunter    Mon May 07, 2007 20:55 
 7   A real door step issue.     civic_critic    Mon May 07, 2007 21:06 
 8   Look after the needy     Union member    Mon May 07, 2007 21:10 
 9   Larkin turning in his grave     Mark Reilly    Mon May 07, 2007 22:00 
 10   Proof?     civic_critic    Mon May 07, 2007 22:10 
 11   Confirm theStory     K. Hunter    Mon May 07, 2007 23:42 
 12   Iteresting     Padraig R    Tue May 08, 2007 00:03 
 13   Still no proof     civic_critic    Tue May 08, 2007 00:14 
 14   What are you talking about?     civic_critic    Tue May 08, 2007 00:21 
 15   Spin     Union member    Tue May 08, 2007 08:25 
 16   Fair play to Harry for highlighting this     Mike    Tue May 08, 2007 08:45 
 17   Very interesting!     Ray    Tue May 08, 2007 08:48 
 18   Not the first time Rabbitte has influenced Union affairs     Kat    Tue May 08, 2007 09:07 
 19   Good memory required     Union menber    Tue May 08, 2007 09:15 
 20   lost a grip on reality     civic_critic    Tue May 08, 2007 09:16 
 21   Ask Union member     K. Hunter    Tue May 08, 2007 09:42 
 22   For real     K O Broin    Tue May 08, 2007 10:11 
 23   record     Union member    Tue May 08, 2007 10:22 
 24   Not Bree again     Reality check    Tue May 08, 2007 10:29 
 25   Ocean fm called a scadding attack     mike    Tue May 08, 2007 10:40 
 26   not surprising at all     rabbitte hunter    Tue May 08, 2007 10:54 
 27   No. 9 and counting     Reality check    Tue May 08, 2007 11:03 
 28   Is this really true     pat cullen    Tue May 08, 2007 11:03 
 29   Unbelievable No. 10     Reality check    Tue May 08, 2007 11:12 
 30   Well my information is second hand     Mike    Tue May 08, 2007 11:24 
 31   Tell the truth     K. Hunter    Tue May 08, 2007 11:36 
 32   As some one said to me about Bree - He got lucky, then was found out. Sums it up nicely???     Mark    Tue May 08, 2007 11:48 
 33   Should have taken the Blue pills     Reality check    Tue May 08, 2007 11:55 
 34   No Socialist     Reality check    Tue May 08, 2007 12:02 
 35   Come on union member     K. Hunter    Tue May 08, 2007 12:25 
 36   Burden of Proof proving too much for wee Declan     Reality check    Tue May 08, 2007 12:34 
 37   too many strings     Union member    Tue May 08, 2007 12:39 
 38   What are you afraid of?     K. Hunter    Tue May 08, 2007 13:00 
 39   In denial?     Reality check    Tue May 08, 2007 13:09 
 40   Trinity     Mark Reilly    Tue May 08, 2007 13:23 
 41   No.11 or is it just Mark back     Reality check    Tue May 08, 2007 13:41 
 42   Sock puppets galore     Union member    Tue May 08, 2007 13:42 
 43   Certain Trade Union official     K. Hunter    Tue May 08, 2007 13:56 
 44   Some progress.     Reality check    Tue May 08, 2007 14:03 
 45   Saw the light     Tony    Tue May 08, 2007 14:31 
 46   mr bree     red back under the bed    Tue May 08, 2007 14:31 
 47   Bree again??     P.K Lynch    Tue May 08, 2007 15:29 
 48   No chance     Reality check    Tue May 08, 2007 15:33 
 49   Liberty hall     Arthur RR    Tue May 08, 2007 16:06 
 50   Still no response     K. Hunter    Tue May 08, 2007 16:26 
 51   Thats your opinion     Reality check    Tue May 08, 2007 16:36 
 52   Ounce of decency     MD Egan    Tue May 08, 2007 17:15 
 53   Cake?     Reality check    Tue May 08, 2007 17:26 
 54   The right wing of Sligo are laughing...     non_sligo_man    Tue May 08, 2007 18:58 
 55   Similar to situation in Limerick     jryan    Tue May 08, 2007 18:59 
 56   The issue is the labour party moving to the right     Jack White    Tue May 08, 2007 19:06 
 57   Facts     Union member    Tue May 08, 2007 19:16 
 58   No smoke without fire!     jay    Tue May 08, 2007 19:36 
 59   Ah thats it     LP Member    Tue May 08, 2007 20:18 
 60   stop distorting the truth     Union member    Tue May 08, 2007 20:48 
 61   Health board can't be giving free dinners to everyone     pat    Tue May 08, 2007 21:27 
 62   Mumbo Jumbo     LP Member    Tue May 08, 2007 21:49 
 63   nearer the truth     Union member    Wed May 09, 2007 08:05 
 64   Union member get a job     The boss    Wed May 09, 2007 09:30 
 65   Cllr. Bree is one of a very few socialist left     David    Wed May 09, 2007 10:03 
 66   The Great Pretender     Reality check    Wed May 09, 2007 10:21 
 67   never said he had country wide support     David    Wed May 09, 2007 10:51 
 68   The Green Party behind this thread     Red DJ    Wed May 09, 2007 10:59 
 69   Better the Devil you Know?     Reality check    Wed May 09, 2007 11:00 
 70   If they can try in Limerick they can do it in Sligo too     kat    Wed May 09, 2007 11:29 
 71   Its nonsense     Reality check    Wed May 09, 2007 11:36 
 72   Where did his come from? Evidence PLEASE     non-aligned    Wed May 09, 2007 11:47 
 73   Smokescreens     Reality check    Wed May 09, 2007 11:59 
 74   Green Party not behind this     rory    Wed May 09, 2007 12:54 
 75   Dont worry Rory     Reality check    Wed May 09, 2007 13:04 
 76   can't figure this tread out     Rory    Wed May 09, 2007 13:13 
 77   You're Welcome Rory     Reality check    Wed May 09, 2007 13:25 
 78   the calibre of the man     Union member    Wed May 09, 2007 13:28 
 79   Kangroo Court     Terry/lucan    Wed May 09, 2007 19:06 
 80   Keen interest huh?     LP Member    Wed May 09, 2007 19:29 
 81   Coalition of the Gullible     civic_critic    Wed May 09, 2007 19:49 
 82   More propaganda     Union member    Wed May 09, 2007 19:52 
 83   disgusted at labour and siptu     tommy    Wed May 09, 2007 21:12 
 84   Blah blah blah     LP Member    Wed May 09, 2007 22:04 
 85   BTW     LP Member    Wed May 09, 2007 22:21 
 86   Spare us     Spartakus    Wed May 09, 2007 22:25 
 87   Thats fair enough Spartakus     LP Member    Wed May 09, 2007 22:33 
 88   Lest we forget     Union member    Thu May 10, 2007 08:41 


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