On 27 November 1920 Galway brothers Patrick and Harry Loughnane were arrested on their family farm by the Royal Irish Constabulary’s Auxiliary Division. The men were locally prominent republicans and the RIC was determined to exact revenge on them for an earlier IRA ambush. A few days after their arrest, the Loughnane brothers’ bodies were […]
Voters in the Derry constituency of Foyle are preparing to choose, on Thursday, their new MP. A solidly nationalist seat, the winner is predicted to come from one of the two large nationalist parties, incumbent MP Elisha McCallion for Sinn Fein, and the leader of the SDLP, Colum Eastwood. Peadar Toibin’s Aontu is running councillor […]
In terms of the arithmetic that governs the balance of power within Leinster House, the results of the four by-elections make little difference. The only way in which the Government can be forced into calling an early election is if Fianna Fáil support a motion of no confidence, and there was little evidence that even […]
Aontú has accused Sinn Féin of distributing a bogus sample ballot paper in advance of today’s by-election in Wexford.
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has submitted the Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2019 to the Dáil. The Bill aims to make the online provision of pornography to children illegal, and has been drafted in response to growing concerns from parents about easy access to pornography online. Deputy Tóibín said “The proliferation of […]
The newest political party in Northern Ireland has nominated seven candidates to contest the elections for Westminster in December. Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín said the party was proud to announce the candidates as: Dr Anne McCloskey in Foyle, Dr Seán McNicholl forEast Derry, James Hope contesting West Tyrone, Paul Brady in South Down, Monica Digney contesting a seat […]
The British general election on December 12 will be held almost 101 years to the day since the 1918 general election in Ireland. The last time there was a democratic vote throughout the island on the same day, the outcome was a decisive victory for Sinn Féin which stood on the platform of Irish independence […]
The SDLP have walked out of the Stormont Assembly and stymied an attempt by the DUP to introduce a bill preventing the British government from imposing abortion on the north of Ireland. Pro-life groups said that while Sinn Féín’s support for the extreme abortion law was already established , the actions of the SDLP were […]
Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, has been slammed for hypocrisy after she said Brexit was being foisted on the north while her party works to enable Westminster in forcing abortion on the region. Yesterday, Deputy McDonald said: “There is no such thing as a good Brexit. Brexit is being foisted on the north of […]
There has been a lot of anger from pro-choice activists this morning in relation to this new leaflet from Aontú. Downs Syndrome and abortion is an emotive subject, as citizens of the republic learned last year. Now Aontú is putting it front and centre of the ongoing debate in Northern Ireland. Debate, actually, is the […]
WATCH: Peadar Tóibín warns that Ireland is on dangerous economic ground, with debt of €230bn and an over-reliance on foreign corporations not helped by Budget 2020. See full interview: https://buff.ly/35nl9LC
Leader of Aontú, Peadar Tóibín, has said that yesterday’s Budget introduced by Minister Paschal Donohue has done little to address the chasm developing between rural Ireland and Dublin. “We are now at crisis point as a nation,” the Meath West TD said. “Ireland is divided between an over-heating and fractured capital and sprawling commuter belt […]