If we want a decent life, we’ll have to live up to the legacy of Larkin

NINETY years ago this morning, about 200 tram drivers in Dublin stopped work. They abandoned their trams in a demand for union recognition.

That was the start of what became known as the 1913 lockout, a titanic struggle between Jim Larkin's ITGWU and the employers of Dublin on the other.

The employers were led by William Martin Murphy, the proprietor of the Irish Independent and the Irish Catholic.