 The depth of support for labour was particularly displayed in Mid-Cork, no doubt due to the growth of another organisation, the Irish Land and Labour Association (ILLA), assiduously cultivated by D. D. Sheehan the then editor of the Skibbereen based newspaper, "The Southern Star", who assured that UIL and ILLA branch reports were given weekly press coverage, crucial for the expansion and growth of the UIL in Cork.The existence of these two organisations, the UIL centred on popular broad-nationalism, the ILLA based on ‘labour nationalism’ at first apparently corroborative of one another, would within a decade ultimately lead to self-destructive class-tensions, schisms and divisions.The UIL tactic at the time of setting the have-nots against the haves naturally appealed to the self-interest of the simpler peasants and was the main reason for the rapid spread of the movement.