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...
by Emmet Doyle | Apr 22, 2025 | News
“A victory for common sense, for women and for those who are unafraid to put their heads above the parapet to defend the rights of those who are being eroded by ideology”. That’s how Aontú Senator Sarah O’Reilly has described the recent ruling by the British Supreme...
by Emmet Doyle | Apr 18, 2025 | News
How many more collisions will it take before action is taken?….Cllr Tóibín The lives of Navan Road users are being dangerously compromised on a notorious junction by the continuing lack of action on safety measures. Aontú Cllr Emer Tóibín says yet another recent...
