April describes herself on her Instagram account as "pro worker, pro farmer, anti state, anti capitalist", and one of the leaders of the Roots party, which is yet to be registered. She also wants to focus on the environment, public transport, health and workers rights.

I decided to run because I wanted to prove to other ordinary people who aren’t big shots that they can, even if they haven’t much money and for democracy to hold any water we have to. I want to represent the rights of workers, farmers and the poor together in a progressive way and to fight for services and industry for rural Ireland and disadvantaged towns. We need whole island decentralised development. We need everyone to be seeing something of the money that’s supposedly in the country. No hero is coming to save us, we have to try to do it ourselves.

Most contemporary policy is now ideologically a private sector giveaway of public money. This is hampering our ability to provide services particularly health and housing because someone has to be creaming profit all of the time. When we were the poorest country in Europe, we housed the people and backed indigenous industry. We built a nationalised and cooperative industry. The idea that public private partnerships deliver more value is a farcical joke. There is no social progression for the working class and every crisis in the country can be traced back to this.

I would like to make an argument for a shift to Agroecology and syndicalism, the need to have a sustainable agricultural revolution leading into an eco Industrial Revolution to secure our economic future, and why it should centre workers, farmers and their rights as well as the environment. That taking this track can properly develop our economy instead of us standing with the paw out begging off of multinationals who can up and leave at any time, industrialise on the basis of the bounty of our land and be beholden to no one.