by Emmet Doyle | Jul 9, 2025 | News
There is a point at which patience ceases to be a virtue and becomes a farce. That point, for the people of Newport, has been well and truly passed. Newport, a jewel on the Mayo coast, brimming with potential for tourism, water sports, and economic revival, is being...
by Emmet Doyle | Jul 9, 2025 | News
GRAND NEPHEW OF ONE OF THE 7 SIGNATORIES SPEAKS AT AONTÚ GPO PROTEST Not on our watch. The GPO will not be allowed to be treated with the same disrespect, disregard and disdain that so many other rich historical sites in Ireland have been. That was the resounding...
by Emmet Doyle | Jul 9, 2025 | News
The Government is being urged to address the regulation of Nicotine Pouches in Ireland amid growing concerns about their accessibility and potential serious health impacts, particularly on young people. Aontú Senator Sarah O’Reilly who is raising the issue in the...
by Emmet Doyle | Jul 8, 2025 | News
Public Demonstration to be held TODAY 8th of July at 7pm outside the GPO A grand Nephew of one of the seven signatories of the Irish proclamation will address this evening’s (8th July) Aontú protest against Gov backed plans to ‘to reconstitute’ the historic and...
by Emmet Doyle | Jul 8, 2025 | News
There is a fine line between protecting citizens from incitement and gagging the very voices that hold the powerful to account. It is a line, I fear, that the European Union’s proposed hate speech laws are perilously close to erasing. In Germany, pro-Palestinian...
by Emmet Doyle | Jul 7, 2025 | News
Aontú TD for Mayo, Paul Lawless, has called for urgent Government action on illegal hare coursing in rural areas of Mayo, warning that farmers are being left defenceless while gangs and their dogs roam freely across farmland, killing livestock. Speaking at the...
by Emmet Doyle | Jul 7, 2025 | News
Aontú TD for Mayo, Paul Lawless, has sharply criticised the Irish Government for its silence and double-speak in response to EU pressure to introduce new hate speech legislation. Raising the issue in the Dáil this week, Deputy Lawless warned that Ireland faces a...
by Emmet Doyle | Jul 2, 2025 | News
Did a Donegal Government Minister and Government TDs know that a long awaited surgical hub for the North West may be located in Sligo as opposed to at Letterkenny University Hospital in Donegal ? Aontú’ s Mary T Sweeney, who is Chair of the Letterkenny Hospital Group...
by Emmet Doyle | Jul 2, 2025 | News
This government is systematically squeezing Irish families dry during a cost-of-living crisis—and now they’ve set their sights on your children’s dreams and future,” declared Paul Lawless TD, in response to the €1,000 rise in third-level college...
by Emmet Doyle | Jul 2, 2025 | News
There are over 300 private clinics operating on the grounds of public hospitals across the country, according to figures supplied to Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD in response to a Parliamentary Question. Speaking today Deputy Tóibín said: “Aontú was the first...
