A job centre which has been run by volunteers for almost five months has been forced to shut down due to lack of funds.

Family and friends of the Vita Cortex workers are planning a candlelit vigil at the factory next week.

Up to 5,000 people attended a march organised in support of Vita Cortex workers over the weekend in one of the biggest public demonstrations Cork city has seen in recent years.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) have called on affiliated unions across Munster to back a march in support of the Vita Cortex workers in Cork tomorrow.

The Vita Cortex workers have vowed to continue their sit-in despite threats of legal action.

A jobs centre in Cork City which lost Fás funding has appealed to a trade union umbrella group for emergency funding to help it stay open.

More than 400 people have held a protest match in Cork today in support of the former Vita Cortex workers.

A Dáil protest in support of workers at Vita Cortex is planned for later today.

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.

FORMER workers at an Employment Resource Centre in Cork have reopened the closed centre and are running it voluntarily.

THE streets of Dublin rang out last night to demands that the Israeli ambassador be expelled and trade sanctions be imposed against the mideast state as about 2,000 people marched through the capital to protest against yesterday’s aid flotilla attack.

OUR organisation wishes to publicly disassociate itself with the comments of David Begg, general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, who condemns the anti-bin tax protestors in Dublin.

THE Taoiseach was heckled by more than 300 angry IFI workers, seeking an improved redundancy package, when he arrived in Cork last night.