Organisation: PTAA

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Recruited as teenage spy by the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association

Like my father before me, I have been on the dry this November, with the exception of a 48-hour dispensation for the Connemara christening of a beautiful grandchild.

Thu, 03 Dec, 2015

Mayor’s awards honour Cork community pioneers

A schoolteacher from west Cork and a village community group in the Muskerry gaeltacht were the overall winners in Cork County Council’s Mayor’s Community Awards Scheme.

Mon, 05 May, 2014

A life centred on music left room for little else

Marcus Connaughton’s new biography of Rory Gallagher is a labour of love. Pat Ahern on a single-minded but lonely hero from another century

Sat, 10 Nov, 2012

Pioneers face closure due to funding crisis

THE Pioneer Total Abstinence Association (PTAA) faces imminent closure unless new funds are received.

Thu, 28 Apr, 2011

The Pioneers had a sobering effect that we need now more than ever

LAST week witnessed the death of Fr Daniel Dargan, the Jesuit who directed the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association (PTAA) from 1957-’77.

Thu, 04 Oct, 2007