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The Irish Passport

The checkout workers who boycotted apartheid South Africa and other stories

The Irish Passport

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8673 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this listener questions episode, Naomi and Tim take questions from listeners on everything from Gaelic Ulster, to nomadic patterns of land use, and the quirks of Ireland's postal system. We discuss the long effect of an old law that forced women to quit their jobs once they married. Tim tells the story of the supermarket workers who refused to handle goods from apartheid South Africa, and how they are still remembered today. Listener questions episodes are made to answer the queries and suggestions of Patreon supporters who back us at the €5 level or above. We have released this one as a taster of what you're missing! Patreon has introduced gift memberships for the first time this year. So if you know someone who would love access to 100+ bonus episodes of the Irish Passport, you know what to do! A guide to how to buy a gift membership is here: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/31344987943949-How-to-gift-memberships-to-other-fans Thanks so much to all of you and a big shout out to those listeners who sent in their questions. We'll do another listener questions episode soon!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.

0:02.3

Let's do it.

0:03.1

Welcome to the Irish Passport.

0:04.8

I'm Tim McInerney.

0:06.0

I'm Naomi O'Leary.

0:07.0

We're friends.

0:07.7

Can you both to Naomi?

0:08.5

Anwar Fat, Tim.

0:09.9

This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.

0:13.2

Uh-huh.

0:13.5

I'm recording.

0:14.2

One, two, two, three.

0:16.6

Okay. Hello listeners and welcome to a seasonal edition of the Irish Passport podcast. It's Christmas time again.

0:40.2

I hope everyone is having a lovely time and preparing for the holidays coming up.

0:44.7

And since we're in a holiday mood, Naomi, we have decided to release one of our,

0:49.3

what is usually a Patreon-only exclusive benefit for our patrons to all of our listeners for this.

0:56.3

And this is one of our listener question episodes, right?

0:59.6

Yeah.

1:00.0

So a little festive gift, if you will, releasing this to the general feed to give you guys

1:06.1

an idea of if you're not signed up already, what you might be missing out on over on Patreon.

1:11.6

So if you like the sound of what you hear, do sign up with us over there.

1:15.1

It's really awesome to have your support.

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