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- 1 2 SIPTU, "General Secretary: Joe O’Flynn Archived 29 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine "
- ↑ Ray Kavanagh, Spring, Summer & Fall: The Rise and Fall of the Labour Party 1986–99, p.157