Pioneers face closure due to funding crisis

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

In a last-ditch letter to members around the country seen by The Irish Catholic, Pioneer chief Padraig Brady wrote: “The association and central office are facing closure this year unless we receive an urgent injection of funds.”

It would bring to an end a history of the temperance organisation that stretches back to 1898.