27 July 2023
By Tom Collins
tom@TheCork.ie
The 2023 Spirit of Mother Jones Award was presented today to Mick Lynch by James Nolan at the Spirit of Mother Jones Festival in Shandon in front of a capacity at the Dance Cork Firkin Crane.
File photo of Mick Lynch, General secretary of the UK National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT). As part of the media coverage of the RMT’s 2022–23 strikes, Lynch gained widespread attention for his appearances in interviews and debates on the TV News. He was then a panellist on BBC One’s Question Time and BBC One’s Have I Got News for You.
Cork connections
Lynch was born into an Irish family of 5 children in West London in 1962. His father, Jackie Lynch, was from Cork City, and his mother, Ellen “Nellie” Morris, was from County Armagh, they had both emigrated to England during the Second World War.
