Minister Kathleen Lynch speaking before this weekend's Tom Johnson Summer School

Posted on June 12, 2013 at 12:56 PM

This weekend see's the 19th Tom Johnson Summer School taking place in Cork. We spoke earlier to Minister of State Kathleen Lynch about the Summer School and you can see what she said in the accompanying video.

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The theme of the weekend is 'Lock-Out to Left-Out' with a wide range of speakers including Frances Byrne from OPEN, Rosaleen McDonagh, Traveller and Disability Rights activist, Padraig Yeates, Historian and author of 'Lockout:Dublin 1913'.

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Friday's keynote speaker will be the president of Labour’s sister party in Canada, Rebecca Blaikie, and other key speakers include Emer Costello MEP, Minister Joan Burton and the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore. 

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We'll be updating the website over the weekend with posts about the various panels, interviews with speakers and photographs from the weekend and we'll also be tweeting the event which you can follow using #TJ13. Looking forward to seeing you all in Cork.

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