The AHCPS features regularly in the national media where we seek to profile the views of our members on the key issues that impact on them.
Below is a selection of recent press releases and print and broasdcast coverage for the Association.
For all media queries please contact Ronan Farren, Q4 Public Relations, 01 475 1444 / 087 934 0386
(30 Dec 2011)
The AHCPS General Secretary, Dave Thomas, defends the progress made under Croke Park and responds to criticisms of the agreement.
(12 Dec 2011)
The AHCPS General Secretary, Dave Thomas, has today responded to columnist Ivan Yates in today's Irish Examiner. Mr Thomas argues that the Department of Finance should not be singled out for blame for our economic problems
(08 Sep 2011)
The General Secretary of the AHCPS, Dave Thomas, has contacted the producers of RTE's Today with Pat Kenny programme to clarify the exact position in regard to pension entitlements for retiring civil servants.
(06 May 2011)
Addressing delegates at the Annual Conference of the Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants (AHCPS) in Dublin this afternoon, the Association’s General Secretary, Dave Thomas, said that the civil service is ahead of its 2011 targets in terms of reducing staffing numbers under the Croke Park Agreement.
(06 May 2011)
Video footage of PJ Fitzpatrick, Head of the Croke Park Implementation Body, speaking at the AHCPS Annual Conference
(03 May 2011)
The Chairman of the Implementation Body for the Croke Park Agreement, PJ Fitzpatrick, will address the Annual Conference of the Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants (AHCPS) today Friday, 6th May, in the Radisson SAS Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8.
(30 Apr 2011)
Irish Times article by AHCPS General Secretary, Dave Thomas, in response to comments by Management Consultant, Eddie Molloy.
(03 Mar 2011)
AHCPS General Secretary, Dave Thomas, is interviewed on RTE's Primetime programme on the recent Wright Report.
(02 Mar 2011)
Irish Times coverage of the Wright Report and its vindication of the Department of Finance.
(01 Mar 2011)
The Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants (AHCPS) has said that the decisions and actions taken by senior members of the Department of Finance and their advice to successive Ministers for Finance over the period 2000-2010 has been largely vindicated.