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Hassin Bin Sober

(27,281 posts) Sat Oct 4, 2025, 10:33 PM Oct 4

A comedic telling of the Dunnes Stores shop Grapefruit Ladies in Ireland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_Stores_strike#:~:text=On%2019%20July%201984%2C%20Mary,'Reilly%2C%20and%20Brendan%20Barron.

Workers at a Dunnes Stores shop in Ireland staged a three-year strike against apartheid in South Africa between 1984 and 1987 which led, in due course, to the Irish government banning the importation of South African goods into Ireland.

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Oh, he's a favorite of ours. He's hilarious. ms liberty Oct 4 #1

I never heard of him. I'll have to check out his stuff. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 5 #3

K&R chowder66 Oct 4 #2