Catch-my-Pal, alternatively known as the 'Protestant Total-Abstinence Union', was an anti-alcohol organisation founded on 13 July 1909 in Armagh, Ireland. The organisation closed down in January 1970, when its last club stopped operations.[1]
Its distinctive feature was that members would competitively persuade one of their friends to come with them and take 'the pledge' at each meeting. This 'Catch-my-Pal' method - the phrase was coined by its founder, Rev. Robert Patterson - was later used to recruit the 'Pals' Battalions to the British Army in World War I.
- ^ Barkley, J., 1972. St. Enoch’s Congregation 1872-1972. Century Services, Belfast. pp84-85