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The Energy Services Union {of Ireland} (Aontas Oibrithe Fuinnimh {na hEireann} is a trade union representing workers at the ESB Group in Ireland. As of 2024 ESU is the last "in-house" trade union left in Ireland.
Until the late 1950s, most staff at the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) were represented by the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union. In 1959, a strike among clerical staff at the ESB was unsuccessful, and this led the clerical section to found a new union, Electricity Supply Board Officers' Association (ESBOA). By the following year had a membership of 1,116, growing to 1,800 ten years later, and 3,005 in 1990. It affiliated to the Irish Congress of Trades Unions in 1976. David Begg became its general secretary in 1982, serving for three years.[2][3]
By 2012, the union also had members working for Endesa, EirGrid and Airtricity, and as a result it renamed itself as the "Energy Services Union [of Ireland]".[3]
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Presidents
- 1998-2002: Philomena Harrington
- 2002-06: John Nugent
- 2006-10: Dave Byrne
- 2010-13: Treasa Ni Mhurchú
- 2013-17: Ann Lynch
- 2017-21: Karen Halpenny
- 2021-25: Anthony Kelly
- 2025- : Karen Halpenny
General Secretaries
- 1960: Franklin O'Sullivan[3]
- 1964: N. Farrelly[3]
- 1965: R. Kinch[3]
- 1968: R. McElroy[3]
- 1969: E. Harpur[3]
- 1972: Louis Gillick[3]
- 1975: Micheál Ó Foghlú[3]
- 1978: John Mitchell[3]
- 1982: David Begg[3]
- 1985: John Hall[3]
- 1991: Willie Cremins[3]
- 2008: Tony Dunne[3]
- 2010: Fran O'Neill
- 2024: Karan O'Loughlin
References
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