Independent Ireland is holding its annual conference in Galway, where party members, and elected representatives will gather to discuss policy, party growth and upcoming bye-elections.<\/p>\n
The party which styles itself as the party of “common sense and the real choice for change” already has four TDs; Michael Collins, Michael Fitzmaurice, Richard O’ Donoghue and Ken O’ Flynn. Ciaran Mullooly is the party’s MEP and there are also 24 councillors sitting on local authorities around Ireland.<\/p>\n
The party has developed a broad policy platform around housing, rural Ireland, justice and immigration and the cost of living.<\/p>\n
TDs and councillors were actively involved in last weeks fuel price protests and present at a number of the blockade of fuel depots.<\/p>\n
Independent Ireland is also staunchly opposed to the Mercosur trade agreement.<\/p>\n
Leader Michael Collins will tell members later the party has made a “significant and unmistakable impact” over the last year and positioned itself as “a credible voice for ordinary people” as frustration with the Government grows.<\/p>\n
Independent Ireland has not selected a candidate to stand in the upcoming Dublin Central bye-election, but Cllr Noel Thomas is standing in Galway West, hoping to win the seat vacated by President Catherine Connolly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Independent Ireland is holding its annual conference in Galway, where party members, and elected representatives will gather to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-404778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}