This Working Life: 'You could easily have someone come in with a bracelet worth three grand' - Willie Gormley from butcher to pawnbroker
Briefly

The article features an interview with Terence Gormley, who recounts his extensive 50-year career in the butchery industry, beginning in the 1940s in Dublin. He shares the journey of starting his own business alongside Thomas le Blanc after identifying an opportunity with a retiring shop owner. Gormley attributes much of his success to good luck and expresses his enthusiasm for continuing to work, indicating that retirement is not on his horizon anytime soon.
In the 1940s, my dad, Terence Gormley, was working in a butcher shop in Parnell Street in Dublin with Thomas le Blanc. They decided to open their own business.
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