New policies for a more aggressive approach to tackling dereliction in Cork city have been agreed as work finally starts on a 255-bed student apartment complex on a long-term derelict site.

Staff at the former Vita Cortex plant in Cork are calling on the Government to change company law, to give more protection to workers.

Tonight marks the last night of a sit-in by former workers at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork.

The Taoiseach has welcomed the resolution of a row over redundancy packages for Vita Cortex workers in Cork.

Workers at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork are planning a “major escalation” of their protest following the company’s refusal to take on board the guidance offered by mediation officials who attempted to find a solution to the four-month-long dispute.

Workers at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork have pledged to escalate their protest.

Protesting workers at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork have voted to accept a series of recommendations from the Labour Relations Commision (LRC) aimed at ending the dispute.

Attempts to mediate a dispute in the redundancy row at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork have failed, it was announced this afternoon.

Frustrated ex-workers involved in a sit-in at the Vita Cortex plant have escalated their protest by blocking access to the factory site and preventing the removal of goods by sister company Vita Clean.

Workers at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork have rejected a new redundancy offer described by their union as "derisory".

Workers staging a sit-in at the Vita Cortex plant in County Cork received another boost when they were visited by soccer star Paul McGrath this evening.

Former Republic of Ireland soccer star Paul McGrath is due to visit the workers of the Vita Cortex plant in Cork today - to pledge his support.

Workers at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork are hoping that a crucial meeting today between the Taoiseach and Jobs Minister Richard Bruton will bring an end to their dispute with management over redundancies.

Talks at the Labour Relations Commission in Cork aimed at solving the dispute amongst management and staff at the Vita Cortex plant over redundancy payments, adjourned last night without agreement.

TALKS aimed at ending a month-long sit-in by the Vita Cortex workers in Cork will resume on Friday after they finished last night without a resolution.

THE Labour Relations Commission (LRC) will chair talks next week in a bid to end the month-long Vita Cortex sit-in.

PROTESTING former workers at the Employment Resource Centre in Cork city are continuing to operate the facility voluntarily after refusing to comply with Fás orders to shut it down.

SIPTU general secretary Joe O’Flynn visited workers engaged in a protest sit-in at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork yesterday.

Christmas Mass has been held at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork where 32 workers are continuing their protest throughout the festive period.

SIPTU president Jack O'Connor has visited workers at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork this Christmas Eve as they continue their sit-in.

Some 30 workers are continuing their sit-in today at a Co Cork company from which they have been made redundant.

Workers are continuing a sit-in at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork this afternoon.

PRESSURE is mounting on the Finance Minister to force NAMA to release funds to pay workers their redundancy before they lose their jobs tomorrow.

DOZENS of parking spaces will be removed to make way for the first phase of a new €7 million network of cycle lanes linking Cork city to the suburbs.