The People's Movement campaigns against any measures that further develop the EU into a federal super-state and works to defend and enhance popular sovereignty, democracy and social justice in Ireland.

Press statement - 31 January 2012

A People's Movement press statement argues that the EU fanatics have come to such a policy dead-end that they really no longer care what happens to the country.

Press statement - 22 January 2012

A press statement from the People's Movement has condemned the government's decision to redeem an unguaranteed €1,250,000,000 bond at par, although the bank that issued it is in the process of being liquidated.

Press statement - 20 January 2012

'Fiscal austerity is the watchword of the EU' - see the press statement issued by the People Movement on 20 January 2012.

People's News - 16 January 2012

The latest issue of People's News, dated 16 January 2012, is now available for download here (266 KB).

Back issues of the newsletter are available here.

Press statement - 5 January 2012

A press statement issued by the People's Movements argues that the proposed 'fiscal compact' would greatly increase outside interference in the budget, taxation and public spending capacity of the Irish state.

Press statement - 22 December 2011

A press statement issued by the People's Movement explains that the unprecedented loan by the European Central Bank of €489 billion to the banking system represents a further transfer of power from elected political leaders to unelected bankers.

Press statement - 15 December 2011

A press statement issued by the People's Movement argues that the behaviour of the government does not augur well for its adherence to democratic and constitutional probity on the upcoming intergovernmental treaty.

Budget demonstration

People's Movement
Budget Demonstration
At Dáil Éireann (Kildare Street) and
the European Parliament office (Molesworth Street)
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 1:00 p.m.


The placards carried by Merkel and Sarkozy revealed their intention to save their banks at any cost to the Irish people.


Some of the attendance at the demonstration outside Leinster House.

A press statement issued to mark the budget called for withdrawal from the euro and an end to pouring money down the drains of a failed banking system.

Crotty Lecture, 2011

Dr Conor McCabe's lecture on 'Ranchers and Banking Interests in the Modern Irish Economy', 15 October 2011.

A 'treaty of debt'


A German view of the European Stability Mechanism.

Call for referendum on permanent euro-zone fund

Twenty-six members of the Oireachtas and one MEP have joined in an initiative with the People’s Movement to demand a referendum on the proposal to establish a permanent euro-zone fund. A People's Movement press statement and the parliamentarians' letter can be read here.

The People's Movement issued a press statement on the implications of the proposal to establish a permanent fund for the euro-zone; the statement is available here. A statement in Irish on the same issue is available here.

EU in Crisis

The following presentation was made at the 'EU in Crisis' conference held in Dublin on 7-8 October 2011:


Frank Keoghan of the People's Movement speaking to the question 'Should Ireland stay in the euro?' The text of his paper is available here.

Dublin - 23 June 2011


The People's Movement launched a new pamphlet entitled The European Stability Mechanism and the case for an Irish Referendum.


The platform party at the pamphlet's launch. From left to right: Thomas Pringle TD, Robert Ballagh, Patricia McKenna, Mary Crotty.


Some of those who took part in a picket outside Leinster House to demand a referendum on the European Stability Mechanism.


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