On June 29, Bernadette Goodwin will finally get her day in court. At every step possible, AIB, majority-owned by the state and one of Ireland’s two pillar banks, has fought the 83-year-old widow to prevent her from reaching this moment. But Goodwin, born in the Dublin suburb of Kimmage in 1938, never gave up and never backed down. More than 300 other people originally joined her in similar litigation against the bank, and more than a dozen of that number died before getting a full court hearing on the substantial issues. But Goodwin has kept going, undeterred, unyielding. She has…

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