SIPTU Outsource Hiring Communications To Progressive Democrat Veteran Patricia Ryan

It has come to the attention of Aontacht Media that the largest Irish trade union SIPTU is at this moment contracting veteran Progressive Democrat members for the hiring of senior positions within the 200,000-strong trade union.

It was revealed by a concerned recipient of an email from the trade union that SIPTU was outsourcing communications for the highest level of its bureaucracy to DHR Communications. The person issuing this email on behalf of SIPTU was Patricia Ryan, formerly of the Progressive Democrats, now managing director of DHR Communications. Patricia was first employed under Pat Cox PD MEP in Brussels for 8 years beginning in 1991. She then returned to Ireland to work 3 years more for Cox in his constituency office. Upon Cox’s election as President of the European Parliament she returned to join him in Brussels.

Following her lengthy employment with Pat Cox, Patricia was enlisted by the leader of the PDs; Mary Harney as her senior advisor and highest paid employee, she remained in this position until Harney’s resignation. This is the lesser part of a life’s commitment to the party in complete contrast to SIPTU’s supposed values and fundamental mission as a trade union.

The Progressive Democrats can be considered the furthest right wing party at work in this country in the 2000s, its leader succeeding Mary Harney; Michael McDowell, had specifically targeted the Labour Party for its alleged too close for comfort relationship with SIPTU. This was a party which had been the hardest advocate for privatisation which broke SIPTU’s own union power in the public sector.

It is a betrayal of SIPTU’s own supposed values and fundamental mission to deputise veteran PDs such as Patricia Ryan with the sensitive work of top-echelon bureaucratic communications.

SIPTU has not yet responded to a request for a comment.