Goalpak Tea

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Goalpak was the label of Irish tea merchant J&T McGinley, founded by brothers Jack and Tom McGinley in 1928. The company operated for 48 years, blending and selling tea throughout Donegal and Northern Ireland. Headquartered in Derry but with a second premises in Donegal, its cross-border position created challenges, but the company succeeded where many others didn’t, successfully navigating the Anglo-Irish Economic War, World War Two, rationing, and economic protectionism. It was the intensification of Northern Ireland’s sectarian conflict that led to the business’s closure in 1976.

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• Falcarragh and World War I

• Opening Foyle Street

• Economic War

• World War II

• A new office and The Troubles

• Conflict escalates in Derry and a fire

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