Talk Talk cheap but gift of the gab pays

IT IS good to talk, according to those phone company ads.

The faceless managers running the Talk Talk operation in Waterford, however, opted instead for silence, springing an unpleasant surprise on 575 employees.

The meagre nature of the notice period provoked Taoiseach Enda Kenny into an unusual broadside against a business. The company is effectively in the stocks this weekend, having displayed contempt for a workforce which, by its own admission, has been a high-achieving one.