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The Mitchel McLaughlin Column

THE Credit Union movement was introduced to Ireland in the 1960s by community activists concerned at the disadvantage experienced by working class people in accessing credit.

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Thosaigh mé m'alt an tseachtain seo chuaigh thart ag scríobh faoi bhusanna agus tosóidh mé leis an ábhar céanna a tseachtain seo: Busanna. Bhí mé i mbusáras na Gaillimhe, Stáisiún Ceannt, maidin Luain ag seoladh Léarscáil Líonra Bhus Éireann agus broisiúr clár-ama busanna ag imeacht as Cathair na Gaillimhe féin do chinn scríbe ar fud fud na tíre.

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Remembering the Past: William Partridge

The most prominent leader of the Dublin workers after Jim Larkin and James Connolly during the Great Lockout of 1913 was William Patrick Partridge. A staunch trade unionist and a skilful orator, Partridge served as a Dublin City Councillor and was a leader of the Irish Citizen Army.

Matt Treacy

MY FIRST memory of a pitch invasion was years ago before Dublin played Roscommon, I think in a league game in Croke Park and a gang of what were then known colloquially as 'Boot Boys' - lads with long, scraggly hair, denim jackets and tartan bottomed flares and Doc Martens - got onto the pitch and kicked the ball from under the referee's foot and proceeded to play with it among themselves until they reached the corner of the Hogan and Canal End where they climbed back over the wire.

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