ON December 6th, 1979, I started as a junior official for the Bar Workers’ Union (Banba Hall) 20 Parnell Square, Dublin 1. On August 21st, 2020, nearly 41 years later I will clock out as General Secretary of Mandate Trade Union, Cavendish Row, Parnell Square, Dublin 1.
To all of the union members I have known, the shop stewards and the activists who trained and assisted me, I would like to sincerely thank you for your friendship and comradeship. You taught me about life, about work, about decency and about struggle.