Jill Randall
“If people had a family crisis everybody knew and to solve it you had to fly somewhere else. If you had a health crisis, to solve it you had to fly somewhere. Life’s like that still for a lot of places like Leinster, Teutonic Bore and some of those more remote mining sites. Now days people are much more tolerant, there are woman truck drivers and men operating computers and keyboards - that was never done in my time.”
Jill Randall
"In the 1970s when there were about 2000 single men in Newman the atmosphere in the town grew tense about week 5. In week 6 the troupe of "girls" came to town and stayed for about 5 days at the local hotel. It was like the stopper on the pressure cooker had been released and the town settled down until just before the next visit. The "girls" visited 6 towns on a six week circuit. The police would move them on but I was always pleased to see them return." Erica Smyth
