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Patrick Costello said accessing the national broadcaster’s archival footage is “deeply and perhaps deliberately prohibitive”.

Women need not apply: On this day in 1976 a woman was denied membership to Longford Snooker Club I think they genuinely must be anti-women Reporter:  ); On this day in 1976, a female student from Longford applied to join the local Snooker Club but was denied. Carmel Breadon was studying psychology at a Dublin University at the time and played snooker regularly with her fiancé Liam Madden. On a visit home to Longford one weekend she applied for membership to a snooker club in Longford to...