Bishop adds voice to dispute

A LEADING Catholic bishop said yesterday that Greencore’s refusal to abide by a Labour Court ruling on redundancy payments to its former workers at Irish Sugar in Mallow cannot be morally justified.

Bishop John Magee of Cloyne called on the company to pay the redundancy to its former employees according to an agreement it entered into in 2004.

Bishop Magee, in a statement issued from the Cloyne Diocesan Office in Cobh, said he had recently met with a delegation of former workers from the Irish Sugar factory in Mallow, and had fully understood the facts of the case.