Malachy Steenson

[5] He was expelled sometime prior to 2012 from the Workers' Party for advocating for a hardline pro-life stance on abortion.

During the campaign, Steenson displayed graphic posters provided by the ultra-conservative Youth Defence organisation in a shop he owned.

[10] He was a prominent campaigner against the children's rights referendum, which was approved in 2012,[5][1] which he characterised as an attack on parents.

[13] In a 2021 interview with the conservative student paper The Burkean, Steenson stated I know this term becomes very loaded but with population replacement, the vast majority of those people, of the 'new Irish', won’t have any loyalty to the Irish Nation, they might have a loyalty to the State but they won’t have any concept within themselves, and this is no fault of theirs, but their allegiance within themselves is to their original country.

During his speaking time, Steenson criticised the Gardaí for supporting Gay Pride events and praised Donald Trump for appointing Supreme Court Judges who overturned Roe v Wade, which legislates for abortion in the United States.

[19] Steenson also ran in the Dublin constituency for the European elections, where he received 7,128 (1.9%) first preference votes,[20] and was eliminated from the field of 23 candidates on the 12th count.