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Not to mention the fact that Ireland also has huge form in this area - having implemented a boycott of apartheid South Africa in 1987, becoming the first Western European state to do so. Ten young Dunnes Stores workers, aged between 17 and 24, refused to handle goods from apartheid South Africa because of how their government treated black people.

This ended up with a strike lasting two years and nine months - unimaginable in the context of today's retail environments.

https://mandate.ie/2024/07/the-day-10-workers-changed-the-wo...



The _word_ boycott (in its current meaning) also originates in Ireland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott#The_word_boyco...




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