by Mily Byrne | Nov 14, 2024 | News
The reality of a population of over 17,000 people not having a full time garda station in one of the fastest growing counties in the country is yet one more damming example of the complete decline in Garda numbers over the term of the government. Aontú General...
by Mily Byrne | Nov 12, 2024 | News
Aontú’s Laois Candidate Mary Hand has today queried if funding, which had been approved for a number of special education ASD units in secondary schools in the county has now been paused. Ms Hand, who is a teacher, says her party leader Deputy Peadar Tóibín has...
by Mily Byrne | Nov 6, 2024 | News
The Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has challenged the government to end the means test on carers’ allowance before the election. Speaking today, Deputy Tóibín said: “Aontú, together with the Regional Group, have brought forward two motions on abolishing the...
by Mily Byrne | Nov 5, 2024 | News
The overnight suspension of a Meals on Wheels service in a rural Co. Mayo town has been described as ‘Bureaucracy gone mad’. Aontú Cllr Paul Lawless says he is disgusted by the “overnight suspension” of the service that so many elderly and vulnerable people rely on....
by Mily Byrne | Nov 5, 2024 | News
The Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has called on the government to ‘take seriously’ the findings of today’s report from the Child Law Project. Speaking today, Deputy Tóibín said: “I have again today written to the chairperson of the Oireachtas...
by Mily Byrne | Nov 4, 2024 | News
Children in Ballymun are being deprived of the use of the local community swimming pool due to what’s being termed as “unnecessary and unyielding bureaucracy”. Community activists in the area are pleading for Dublin City Council to adopt some ‘common sense’ around...