Peadar Tóibín

Conor Sheehan is a TD with Labour in, uh, Limerick.

And Peadar Tóibín is the leader of Aontú.

You're all very welcome indeed to the program.

As you've heard in the, uh, headlines, efforts continue in Belfast tonight to find a re- resolution to the conflict surrounding the, uh, Orange Order march through the Garvaghy Road.

... defied instructions by the police to desist, and now we have a situation where the First Minister is almost certainly under criminal investigation, as are several ministers.

Um-

Well, as, as perhaps is a member of my panel, because, uh, Peadar Tóibín, the leader of Aontú, was at the protest, I think on Sunday.

Peadar, is that correct?

I'm sure she crossed the road once or twice, but she didn't linger on it.

But there was everybody from Peadar Tóibín to dissident Republicans to the IRSP to the SDLP, and the SDLP have been singing off the same hymn sheet as Sinn Féin on this.

So, I mean, that's, it's ominous.

And I also, just before I, before you come in there, like Michelle O'Neill has used a rhetoric, and I think it has been certainly defending very strongly, as she would see it, the Garvaghy Road residents and the nationalist community.

Uh, given that, plus the threat of fuel protests, the government really, uh, government TDs anxious, uh, about that in the weeks ahead.

Uh, obviously, Peadar Tóibín was saying that he will be attending that meeting-

Mm

... at the weekend.

Uh, there's another in Wicklow, and there's a lot of money been spent on both of them.

Uh, Aontú leader and Meath West TD, uh, f- uh, is, uh, Peadar Tóibín, and he joins us this morning.

Peadar, thanks very much for taking our call.

Go raibh míle maith agat.

And therefore, you won't have a cost in terms of, um, the, uh, the cost of securing that, that center, uh, in future.

And if you implement our, uh, immigration policies, you will see a fall in the number of people needing IPAS, and therefore a fall in the demand for those centers, and a reduction in the cost of running those centers and securing them.

Aontú leader and Meath West TD, Peadar Tóibín, thanks for your time.

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Those under 13 will only be available to access child-friendly alternatives, while those teenagers aged between 13 and 15 can only open a social media account with the express permission of their parents.

So are you a parent who feels reassured by these new measures, or do you think it's too little too late? We're joined now by Fine Gael MEP Regina Doherty, and by Peadar Tóibín, leader of Aontú.

Uh, you're both very welcome.

Uh, Regina, can I bring you in first? Uh, you've hailed this as a landmark shift.

... by legislation.

Okay.

Peadar Tóibín, do you welcome this?

Yeah, so first of all, I do think we, we, we have a problem with social media and children, uh, in this country at the moment.

Yeah.

It, it was, and Peadar Tóibín is actually joining us from Derry, uh, the Aontú leader and TD for Mid-East.

Um, Peadar Tóibín, um, after Andy Burnham, now, um, uh, Donald Trump saying, "United Ireland will happen eventually, and it would be a great feather in everyone's cap." Uh, were you surprised at that intervention, and do you welcome it?

Yeah, so it's a spectacular intervention, uh, to be honest [laughs].

He's probably the worst president Americans have ever elected.

Most people would not welcome such a man into the home, and the majority of Irish people will not welcome this visit.

Heads of state and political leaders must, however, make a different calculation."

Indeed, and we often hear, um, discussion of Trump as a very polarizing figure, but actually outside of the United States, there's a rather unified position on Mr. Trump.

It also proposes an extended wait time of eight years for naturalization.

But is this all fair, and could it negatively impact Ireland's ability to attract workers? We're joined now by Fianna Fáil TD Shane Moynihan, Soc Dem's TD Gary Gannon, Aontú Deputy Peadar Tóibín, and political correspondent of the Irish Mirror, Ciara O'Loughlin, uh, who is of course still with us.

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Okay

... to whom we also have responsibilities.

Peadar, Peadar Tóibín.

Yeah, so I, I welcome the U-turn By Fianna Fáil on this issue.

Well, look, maybe this series of reports I've done might, uh, get people outraged or it has got people outraged.

I know that the likes of Peadar Tóibín has said that he's gonna raise this in the Dáil.

He wants to see clamping companies brought before, um, the transport committee because he thinks that they should be, they should be made reveal their profits, and that's one thing I found here.

So APCOA clamped more than 123,000 vehicles nationwide in 2024 and 2025.