by Emmet Doyle | May 14, 2025 | News
There has been a call for a national information campaign to let the public know that their rights to access cash have been reinforced with the passing yesterday of the Access to Cash Bill (Tuesday, 13th May). Welcoming the development, Aontú Senator Sarah O’Reilly,...
by Emmet Doyle | May 14, 2025 | News
The Aontú Leader Peadar Tóibín TD today questioned the Taoiseach during Leader’s Questions in the Dáil in relation to the CHI hip surgeries scandal. Speaking in the Dáil Deputy Tóibín said: “In Ireland because of the dysfunction in the Health Service so many parents...
by Emmet Doyle | May 12, 2025 | News
Aontú Senator Sarah O’Reilly has welcomed a new Bill brought forward to the Seanad that aims to ban the sale of high energy drinks to under 18’s. The Energy Drinks Bill, by Independent Senator Sharon Keoghan and Co Signed by Senator O’Reilly, addresses growing public...
by Emmet Doyle | May 12, 2025 | News
Aontú Senator Sarah O’Reilly has hit out at any moves by the government to increase personal injury awards. The Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, is currently considering a recommendation from the Judicial Council that could see personal injury awards increasing...
by Emmet Doyle | May 12, 2025 | News
There has been a 17% decrease in garda numbers in Carrickmacross since 2019. Confirming the numbers, Aontú Senator Sarah O’ Reilly says the numbers assigned to the town have fallen from 45 to 37 and that there has been an overall 11% decrease across the entire Garda...
by Emmet Doyle | May 12, 2025 | News
New figures released to the Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD show that the length of time a person waits to be seen in emergency departments in Ireland now averages seven hours, which is one hour longer than a decade ago. Speaking in response to the figures, Deputy...
by Emmet Doyle | May 7, 2025 | News
A Navan Cllr has spoken of her narrow escape when a young person travelling at speed on an E Scooter almost collided with her, sending her flying. Aontú’s Emer Tóibín tells how she was walking near the Ramparts when a young lad on an e-scooter came flying around a...
by Emmet Doyle | May 6, 2025 | News
The severe lack of foster parents across Meath and Louth is causing the system to buckle and is a crisis for the large numbers of vulnerable children who need stable and nurturing homes. That’s according to Aontú Cllr Emer Tóibín who says that with hundreds of...
by Emmet Doyle | May 1, 2025 | News
“People who are travelling to work from Cavan especially plasterers, plumbers, and electricians end up paying around €2000 a year on tolls. They don’t have any option to try and avoid this payment or any steps they can take to reduce this financial hardship. They have...
by Emmet Doyle | Apr 28, 2025 | News
A dramatic 54% increase in cancelled outpatient appointments at Cavan General Hospital in the past year is a “devastating inditement of a dangerously understaffed health service” . Aontú Senator Sarah O’Reilly has revealed that 1,048 appointments were cancelled in...