Remembering Jim
Jim Redmond and Michael Fitzgerald fell in love while both working on the GCN FÁS Community Employment scheme in 1994. This month, we sadly lost Jim, who went on to write a column in the magazine well into the 2000s. Here Michael remembers the moment they met.
The Hirshfeld Centre was damaged by fire in 1987. So what better use could there be for the charred remains than to house the chain-smoking, smouldering passions and incendiary tempers of a crowd of FÁS-funded GCN production staff? Those cracks in the facade were less the result of fire and more the result of the office door being repeatedly slammed as we stormed, raged or flounced out of the office.