Caption: Peadar Tóibín TD (center, holding award), leader of Irish political party Aontú, and Eileen Slattery (center right, holding award), pose with members of Irish Pro-Life USA at an event held in their honor at Connolly’s Times Square in Manhattan on February 3, 2026. Photo courtesy of Irish Pro-Life USA. 

Friends and supporters gathered at Connolly’s Times Square in Manhattan on February 3 for an event organized by Irish Pro-Life USA honoring pro-life leaders from Ireland and America. 

Peadar Tóibín TD, leader of Aontú, accepted the Distinguished Leadership Award. Tóibín was in the United States to launch Friends of Aontú USA and attend the March for Life in Washington, D.C., where he joined a delegation organized by the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America that met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. 

Aontú, meaning “Unity” or “Agreement,” is a socially conservative, all-Ireland political party founded in January 2019 and led by Tóibín, operating in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. 

The Public Service Award was presented to Eileen Slattery and her late husband, Chris Slattery, founder of EMC Frontline, now part of CompassCare. Eileen Slattery accepted the award on behalf of herself and her husband. 

“We could not have done it without Chris and Eileen,” said CompassCare Regional Executive Arlene Rotella. 

CompassCare is a network of pro-life, faith-based pregnancy centers in New York that provide free, confidential medical services, including ultrasounds, STD testing, and abortion pill reversal information, to women with unplanned pregnancies. 

Irish Pro-Life USA is a grassroots US-based pro-life organization for the Irish diaspora and Friends of Ireland in America, dedicated to full civil rights for babies in the womb and pro-family, anti-abortion policies in Ireland, America, and worldwide.