Joe Gormley

Joseph Gormley, Baron Gormley, OBE (5 July 1917 – 27 May 1993) was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain) from 1971 to 1982, and a Labour peer.

Early life

Joe Gormley was born in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire in 1917, one of seven children, and became a miner at the age of fourteen. He was an active trade union official and became a committee member of the St.Helens area branch of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in 1957. He served as general secretary of the North West region (comprising Lancashire and Cumberland) from April 1961 and joined the national executive in 1963. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1970 New Year's Honours. He was a lifelong fan of Wigan Rugby League Football Club.

1970s

In 1971, he was elected as leader of the NUM and presided over the national strike that began on 9 January 1972. The strike lasted for seven weeks and the Middle East oil crisis caused widespread power cuts. Emergency measures were used to economise on electricity by reducing the working week to three days. After much negotiation the strike was resolved on 25 February 1972 with a 21% increase in pay and concessions won by the miners. Miners moved to the top of the UK's industrial wage league, having previously been seventeenth.

Joe Gormley (baseball)

Joseph Gormley (1866–1950) was an American professional baseball player for the 1891 Philadelphia Phillies.

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Joe Gormley (footballer)

Joe 'the goal' Gormley (born 26 November 1990) is a footballer from Northern Ireland who plays as a striker for Peterborough United. Gormley previously played for amateur side Crumlin Star, before making the move to Cliftonville. On 14 June 2015, Gormley made the transition to professional football, signing for Football League One side Peterborough United.

Club career

Crumlin Star

Gormley began his career at Crumlin Star, where he scored 61 goals in the 2010–11 season before joining Cliftonville in 2011.

Cliftonville

He was top goalscorer in Northern Ireland in 2013–14, when he became the first player in the club's history to score over 30 goals in two separate seasons, and was named as Ulster Footballer of the Year and Northern Ireland Football Writers' Player of the Year for 2013–14. He holds the club record for most goals scored in a domestic season in a Cliftonville shirt, amounting 41 in the season of 2014-15; breaking his own previous record of 37 goals the season before.