The Aontú Party has chosen Cavan as the location for its annual think-in this weekend.
Party leader Peadar Tóibín told the Joe Finnegan Show earlier this week that among the issues up for discussion between party members will be
housing, garda numbers, redress by the religious orders for survivors of abuse, the national debt and the Apple tax payment.
Of course the event, in the Hotel Kilmore, is being held in Cavan County Councillor Sarah O'Reilly's home constituency who was recently nominated to run as Aontú's candidate in the general election.
Mr Tóibín praised Councillor O'Reilly as "one of the hardest working councillors" in the country and said the fact she topped the poll in her
Bailieborough-Cootehill constituency in the last two local elections is an "example of a person being thanked by the electorate". Peadar Tóibín also listed out the other candidates running for Aontú in the Shannonside /Northern Sound region: