Tóibín's Aontú faces a political Everest

Peadar Tóibín has tangible living proof of the trauma and the challenge involved in pulling a new party into existence

Peadar Tóibín

There isa new political party in the making. So far, Aontú hasn’t exactly broken through public consciousness and no, I didn’t even bother to do a straw poll to produce evidence to say that.

It is fair to say that it is only two weeks old, but it has definitely not behaved as a noisy, wailing baby, looking for lots of attention. Instead, it has started life with a series of local meetings, ...