Credit Union Throwback

Kanturk Credit Union has sharing memories through the years in celebration of their 60th Anniversary.

They’ve been encouraging members of the community to send paper clippings or photos through Facebook or email: info@kanturkcu.ie.

L-R: Bernard Kennedy, Myra O’Sullivan, Tim Joe McCarthy, Nora O’Reilly, Peter Walsh, Don Fitzgerald, Con Holland, Noel O’Brien, Denis Fitzpatrick, Donal Hanrahan, and

E.P. Hogan

A group pictured at the opening of the Credit Union office in Percival Street in 1971 as the President, Con Holland, hands over the keys to the treasurer, Peter Walsh.

The late President de Valera presenting an autographed copy of the Credit Union Act, 1966, to Miss Nora Herlihy and Denis Fitzpatrick at Aras an Uachtaran on August 29, 1966.

Back L-R: P.J. O’Donovan (On behalf of Con Holland), Rev. D.C. O’Connell, Michael Lucey, Noel O’Brien, Patrick Allen, Michael Mannix, Frank Healy, Sarah O’Connor, John Cremin (on behalf of William O’Brien), and John Kealy (on behalf of the relatives of the late John Barry. Sitting L-R: Peter Walsh, Mrs. A. Walsh (on behalf of Tom Lenihan), P.J. Moore, Denis Fitzpatrick, Nora Herlihy, guest: Rev. P. O’Keane, Donal Hanrahan, and John Fallon.

Founder members of Kanturk Credit Union who were presented with plaques at a function to celebrate Credit Union Offices on Strand St. Kanturk, and the 21st birthday of its foundation.

This picture was sent by Tom Moore of Kanturk with a newsletter dated as far back as 1983 that announced the arrival of the first computer for the Kanturk Credit Union. It was found amongst paper cutting and documents that he has been gathering in scrapbooks through the years. He shared a memory of those days;

“My Dad, Paddy Joe Moore, was one of the founder members. I remember, as a small boy, being brought over to the Edel Quinn Hall on Friday evenings by my father. He’d lodge some of his pay and he’d also give us a pound or two for us to do a lodgement into the accounts he had opened for myself and my two other siblings. Back then, it was just volunteers, a table and two chairs and some timber pigeon holes for the account holders.”