Studio news report about the celebrations held for the golden jubilee of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association (PTAA) held at Croke Park, Dublin. The reporter is P.P. O'Reilly. [Date on label ...

The silver jubilee convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America will be opened at 9 o'clock this morning in Columbus Hall, in Sixtieth Street, near Ninth Avenue.

LAST week witnessed the death of Fr Daniel Dargan, the Jesuit who directed the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association (PTAA) from 1957-’77.

The monthly meeting of Carlow Regional Pioneer Total Abstinence Association was held in Grangecon on February 17.

In 1959, some 100,000 people crammed into Croke Park to celebrate the 60th birthday of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association (PTAA) in a carnival of prayer and song. It was an impressive ...

The first annual meeting of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association took place 100 years ago tomorrow. Although membership is less than a third of what it was 50 years ago, with 160,000 members ...

Fr Daniel Dargan: Fr Daniel Dargan, who has died aged 92, was central director of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association when 115,000 people gathered at Croke Park in 1959 to celebrate the ...