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 […]
Minister for Health Simon Harris acknowledged that there was a breach of the abortion law in the case where a healthy unborn baby was aborted in the mistaken belief that it suffered a terminal illness, Peadar Tóibín has told the Dáil. Earlier this year, it was revealed that a healthy baby boy was aborted after […]
One of the doctors involved, GP Andrew Cupples, said that they were concerned for both pregnant mothers and their unborn children, and, as medical professionals, it was their firmly held belief that abortion was the “unjust and violent taking of human life”.
Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín is to launch a bill to ban below-cost selling in the beef industry. Speaking from the Ploughing Championships, the Aontú leader said the measure is needed to tackle the “dysfunctional” beef market.
It has been confirmed that an alleged sex offender who was born male is being held in the women’s prison in Limerick. The prisoner, who now identifies as female, is being detained on remand with female prisoners. In response to a question from Deputy Peadar Tóibín, the Justice Minister Charles Flanagan said there was “a prisoner […]
The Dawn Meats Factory outside Slane in County Meath is to close at 6pm tomorrow, Saturday, in an agreement made with beef farmers this morning after weeks of protests. Aontú TD Peadar Tóibín who witnessed the agreement confirmed that “a deal was agreed in Meath between factory management and farmers.” The primary points agreed were: – […]
Two meat processors, ABP and Dawn, were granted temporary High Court injunctions yesterday prohibiting blockades by beef farmers, whilst the Beef Plan Movement has threatened expulsion for any members who protest at meat factory gates
A construction company, Western Building Systems, that built 42 schools with structural defects for the state has been given a contract by the HSE worth €14m to build an extension to University Hospital Limerick. Western Building Systems is being pursued in fifteen separate legal actions by the Department of Education, after structural defects were discovered […]
Peadar Tóibín calls out Sinn Féin and the SDLP for their silence in the face of Westminster’s attempt to legalise abortion in Northern Ireland, despite their claims of being against British rule in the North. #gript
“This is something different”: Launch of Peadar Tóibín’s Aontú hears of people “desperately frustrated” with politics as it stands, said delegates at the presentation of more than 60 candidates for the local election in May.