Mary Manning
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Stardust campaigner honoured with the Spirit of Mother Jones Award
- Irish News
- November 18, 2020, 10:23
A woman who lost her two teenage sisters in the Stardust fire and has spent the past four decades campaigning to find out the cause of the blaze has b(...)

Woman raped by stepfather from age 10 says State abandoned her
- Irish News
- October 26, 2019
A woman who was raped for years by her stepfather for years from the age of 10, leading to the birth of five of her children, has spoken about how she(...)

Campaigner for child sexual abuse victims to be honoured
- Irish News
- July 22, 2019, 21:39
Cork woman, Louise O’Keeffe is to be honoured for her work campaigning for justice for victims of child sexual abuse in Irish schools when she receive(...)

Mary Swanzy, one of Ireland’s leading modernist painters
- Abroad
- January 9, 2019, 10:00
“To be an artist… you have to be very severe with your amount of energy… To have an overriding hobby, that’s the secret. Mine was an overriding hobby,(...)

2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
- Culture
- December 27, 2018, 05:00
Dreaming in Blue Until February 14th Harry Clarke’s dreamy The Eve of Saint Agnes is at the Hugh Lane in Dublin, but you can see his wonderful waterco(...)
Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strikers honoured with award
- Irish News
- August 4, 2018, 08:53
A former Dunnes Stores worker and her colleagues who went on strike for more than two years to highlight the injustice of the apartheid regime in Sout(...)

Dunnes Stores is coming under pressure from across the political spectrum to make moves to resolve what trade unions have described as the biggest pri(...)

1984: the year that brought Ronald Reagan and Dunnes strikers
- Politics
- December 26, 2014, 06:00
It was a time when a Labour party in coalition with Fine Gael took a kicking in European elections, two cases involving the deaths of babies shook the(...)

Union official and organising force behind Dunnes Stores strike
- People
- December 6, 2014, 01:00
Brendan Archbold, a trade union activist and campaigner for social and human rights who has died aged 67, will probably be best remembered for his rol(...)

‘We kept going because of Nimrod,’ Dunnes group tell activist’s family
- Africa
- December 13, 2013, 01:00
For the former Dunnes Stores strikers, yesterday’s emotional meeting with the family members of Nimrod Sejake was the most personal and fulfilling par(...)