Mary Manning

That wasn't what we'd gone out and strike for.

We'd gone out and strike for the right not to handle South African goods, but we actually got the law in Ireland changed.

So we achieved much more than we thought we were going to achieve.

He said that he had heard about Airstrike when he was in Robben Island and that it had given him hope, which, I mean, like for someone that came to say something like that, it's just, it's very emotional.

Like to know that what you, like we were told for so long that what you're doing is going to be, is wrong and hurt the black people.

To hear someone like Nathanael Mandela say, you know, it kept them going and, you know.

Now, we didn't change a part of that, but we certainly, I suppose, brought attention to it.

See, I suppose, I mean, it was solidarity.

That's, I think, how he looked upon it.

It was people who had, and as he said, we were so far away, we had nothing to gain from it.

But to show solidarity for his people,

He was commending the sign anyway.

So it was just something that was unbelievable.

Go for it.

Do it.

I mean...

I suppose not to be as afraid as I was on the day.

Now, I mean, it had good and bad effects.

As I said, when the strike was finished, we were blacklisted really from getting other jobs, in Dublin anyway.

So I went to Australia.