Dunnes Stores workers still waiting for apology

Despite all the talk of and unity, there is still one piece of rapprochement outstanding from the Mandela era.

Dunnes Stores has never apologised for disciplining the workers who heeded a trade union call not to handle South African produce in an act of moral defiance that brought them international acclaim but great personal hardship.

Mary Manning was a 21-year-old checkout employee at the company’s Henry St store in Dublin in 1984 when the anti-apartheid boycott request was made.