Aontú public meeting in the Edel Quinn Hall

A public meeting in the Edel Quinn Hall, Kanturk, on Monday 8th April (7.30pm) will see Aontú local election candidate Becky Kealy joined by her party leader Peadar Tóibín and European candidate Patrick Murphy for a discussion on issues such as housing, healthcare, farming, cost of living and immigration.

Becky Kealy, who captured 8.5 percent of the vote when she first ran for the party in 2020, after just three weeks’ campaigning, is set to run in the Kanturk LEA in this year’s local elections in June. The 32 year-old chemistry graduate who became a mum recently has been vocal on local and national issues since she was selected as the Aontú candidate for the area.

“I’m proud to have been chosen to stand again by Aontú, a party of principled, committed and hardworking people who are working tirelessly to highlight the huge problems that our country is experiencing,” she said following her selection bcak in January.

“Everything from health to housing, to farming to fishing and to law and order is being hollowed out. There isn’t a single department that this Government presides over that is working as it should be”.

“We’re repeatedly told the country is awash with money and that makes the current difficulties people are experiencing all the more scandalous. Our young people cannot afford to buy their own homes and are now emigrating in large numbers ... There’s hardly a family in Cork who doesn’t have people belonging to them working abroad.”

Indeed, the Kanturk resident is vocal on a wide range of issues and has been scathing of the government repeatedly.

The public has the opportunity to hear more from Becky Kealy and her Aontú colleagues at the Edel Quinn Hall on Monday, April 8.