Fifteeen years later his efforts as a shop steward at Belfast’s Ormeau Bakery, seeking the removal of loyalist flags and emblems ... trade union and socialist movement in Ireland.

Pearse McKenna was born in August 1945 in the Falls Road area of Belfast, attending St Finian’s Primary School and then St Patrick’s, Bearnageeha on the Antrim Road, and playing Gaelic football and ...