Credit union founder to be honoured

CREDIT Union pioneer Nora Herlihy is to be honoured in her native Duhallow tomorrow with a conference on the role of rural women in a recession and the launch of a book to commemorate the centenary of her birth.

Born in Ballydesmond, on the Cork-Kerry border in 1910, she worked as a national school teacher.

Along with two others, Séamus P MacEoin and Sean Forde, she introduced the Credit Union movement to Ireland, in 1958, when many families were in abject poverty.