An Oughterard man has been elected as the deputy leader of the National Party.
Gerry Kinneavy, previously the spokesperson for the Galway cumann, was announced Leas-Cheannaire at the party's Ard Comhairle.
The right-wing National Party was established in 2016 by Justin Barrett, who was later deposed following a controversial leadership struggle.
Some will remember that due to the extraordinary central claim that party members had stolen almost half a million euro worth of gold bars from a vault.
Some years later, the President of the National Party is now Patrick Quinlan, and he's their only elected representative as a councillor on Fingal County Council.
Among the party's key principles are opposition to mass immigration, the EU and use of the Euro currency in Ireland, and abortion.
They also want to establish a new national bank independent of what they term "international finance capitalism", and put capital punishment back on the table.
In short - it wants to execute people convicted of the most serious crimes, something the National Party says new Deputy Leader Gerry Kinneavy has always advocated strongly for.
In a statement, it says Gerry has their "unanimous confidence" owing to his organisational ability, political wisdom and decades of service to the Irish nationalist movement.
The party adds he's been a member of the Immigration Control Platform since the 2000s, which it claims sounded the alarm on immigration during the Celtic Tiger era.
Following his election, Gerry Kinneavy expressed his optimism about the growth of the party over the past ten years and called on all members to get involved in the work ahead.
