AONTÚ WILL HAVE A SEAT IN CORK NORTHWEST OF THAT THERE IS NO DOUBT
She walked thousands of miles over the past few months and worked into the early hours and while she admits she is tired, Aontu’ s Cork Northwest candidate Becky Kealy is in upbeat mood as her hugely respectable vote of 4,054 is distributed.
Surrounded by her small team, Kealy says she is incredibly proud of the vote she achieved calling it a “massive battle but one I conducted with my head held high”.
She says “I want to thank the people of Cork Northwest who believed in me and stayed with me. They know me to be a woman of determination, character and integrity and know that I would have worked my socks off for them”.
“I am so happy with the vote I achieved, and I genuinely want to thank each and every one of those who voted for me, they believed in me and knew that I would have stuck to my word and delivered for them. I am passionate about my country and its people and believe they have been badly served by successive governments. I am a democrat and I accept the will of the people but I will be watching to see if the promises made by my fellow candidates across this area who were elected will come good on the promises they made and if not , I will hold them to account ,make no mistake about that”.
“ I do wish them well ,politics is not easy and we need to remembers they are human beings with all the feelings that human beings have”.
“I am incredibly happy with the campaign I my team ran. We ran a clean, professional, compassionate and decent campaign on an absolute shoestring. It was a true team effort, and I can’t thank them enough. What we didn’t have in terms of the huge sums of all the other parties we more than made up on with true grit and passion. My Aontú colleagues ,who are like family to me, drove thousands of miles to canvass and distribute my election materials, they stayed up all night putting up posters, they were, and are superb and their efforts are reflective of our ethos; Aontú genuinely cares about those who are less fortunate, those who can’t rent a home let along buy one, little children waiting for long promised scoliosis treatments,, people working all hours just to pay the bills , the list is endless”.
“I know I have a solid base of 8% and I am going to continue to build on that and grow it. I will continue to work for and on behalf of my constituents and continue to strengthen the party I love and respect. I am honoured to be a founding member of Aontú and what we have achieved in just five years is nothing short of remarkable”.
