title: Communication Workers Union (Ireland)
text: # Communication Workers Union (Ireland)
  
  The Communication Workers Union is a trade union in Ireland.
  
  The union was founded in 1922 as the Irish Post Office Engineering Union, splitting from the British Post Office Engineering Union following the establishment of the Irish Free State. The following year, it merged with the Irish Postal Union and the Irish Postal Workers' Union, forming the United Postal Union, but the IPOEU was unhappy with the arrangements, and so withdrew before the merger was completed, continuing an independent existence.
  
  It was renamed the Communications Union of Ireland in 1985, while in 1989, it was joined by the Postal Telecommunications Workers' Union and adopted its current name.
  
  ## General Secretaries
  
      1950s: Malachy Dooney
      1967: Seamus De Paor
      1990: David Begg
      1997: Con Scanlon
      2004: Steve Fitzpatrick
      2022: Seán McDonagh
  