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'Now we will switch on the lights'
In May 1948, Canon John Hayes flicked a switch and brought electricity to the parish of Bansha, in Ireland.
The village was the first in Tipperary to be connected to the grid, under the Rural Electrification Scheme.
The ambitious programme ran from 1946 to 1964 and saw 300,000 homes powered up.
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