The response of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael to Sinn Fein surging ahead in the polls show that the parties are too out of touch to actually stop Sinn Fein’s rise. According to polling Sinn Fein are now, at worst, tied with Fianna Fail as the most popular party in this country, and at current […]
Aontú has welcomed the decision of RTÉ to include Peadar Tóibín in the leader’s debate on Thursday. The party said: “RTE have confirmed that Aontú will participate in the Leaders’ debate on Thursday. This is good news. In a free and open democracy no party should be excluded from presenting their policies to the people.”Last […]
Ben Gilroy is no stranger to publicity, with the anti-eviction campaigner a regular fixture in the courts and newspapers for his activities to date.
PEADAR TÓIBÍN outlined Aontú’s ‘United Ireland Policy’ at the GPO today
A People Before Profit candidate for Election 2020 in Dublin North West previously boasted of tearing down posters advertising a meeting by a rape survivors network, and posted photos of his actions on social media. Conor Reddy, a People Before Profit candidate for Dublin North West in the election, went on “a rampage” in the […]
I lived in Navan in 1982. I worked on an archaeology site of all things at Randalstown near where the mines had their dumps. It had been part of the Everard estate which grew tobacco but much longer ago had been a village on the Boyne. So in digging down into our past you might find […]
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín says that, as Minister for Transport in next Cabinet, he would immediately address the “daily nightmare” of commuting for families. “Family life is becoming impossible as parents are forced to leave their homes before dawn and are returning after their children are in bed. They’re saying to me that they feel […]
One of the great things about being a modern, liberated woman is that your autonomy and your right to decide for yourself is respected. We’re all strong, feisty, opinionated and independent women now, smashing the patriarchy and taking no prisoners. The future is female, we’re told. Gone are the days when women were hidebound by convention and told […]
We hear much about threats to democracy from ‘fake news’ and tech manipulation, but the veneer of free and fair elections seems very thin when one scratches under the surface of how our elected elite have already stacked this particular deck in their favour.
We stand, then, to lose our home, the home of our children, the Irish generations as yet unborn. Already weakened by a history of occupation, genocide and forcible cultural reconstruction, we have lacked the clarity and courage to defend our sweet land, its ways, laws and culture.
Sinn Féín TDs have “zero” influence over the party’s policy decisions, according to a former representative, and TDs are told what to do by unelected party staff. In fact, Peadar Tóibín says, Sinn Féin’s TDs are not even allowed to chose their own parliamentary assistants and must represent the party rather than the people who elected them. The Aontú […]
The Green Party have released their election manifesto this week, you can read a copy of it HERE. It’s a brave document, in parts good, in parts a reminder of why the Green Party have the reputation they do. As you read it you find yourself repeatedly agreeing with the normal parts of the manifesto […]