Trade unionists threaten to picket auction of historic note

Trade union members are threatening to picket a Limerick auction house today where a five-shilling note printed by workers who set up a soviet in the city in 1919 is due to be sold.

The note, owned by an unnamed women, has a reserve of €1,000.

Members of the Limerick Trades Council fear the note may be sold to an outside bidder and end up abroad.