Last week, in these pages, it was interesting to read the thoughts of Donegal footballer Eamon McGee on the upcoming marriage referendum.

Cork City Council has backed the Highway 6 workers engaged in a filling station sit-in and accused their former employer of treating them appallingly.

Scores of well-wishers have been visiting a petrol station in Cork to show solidarity with members of staff who have mounted a sit-in to get their outstanding wages, sick pay, and other entitlements.

Firms at Jack Ronan’s Vita Cortex group recorded net losses of €2.3 million last year, new figures show.

The artist Anthony Haughey has taken an interesting tack to commemorate the centenary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout, as part of a strand at this year’s Cork Film Festival. He’s put together a programme of films that celebrate workers’ rights from around the world.

A Cork-based friend of Alex Ferguson has revealed he will be making attempts to encourage him to visit the city.

FUNDS from the sale of a strip of high-profile land at Cork city’s Turners Cross/Kinsale road are to be used to fund pitch improvements and capacity expansion for RABO Direct Pro 12 games in Cork City

Workers involved in one of the longest sit-ins in Irish industrial relations history have backed staff in another dispute.

BANKERS have spent a good portion of the last couple of years trying to convince a jaded populace that they have seen the error of their avaricious ways, but their recent conduct belies any feeble attempts at faux humility.

The Vita Cortex protestors are hitting the big screen.

Outspoken economist Tom O’Connor has called on the Government to crack down on rogue employers to protect workers.

Workers at the Target Express depot in Cork last night vowed that neither they nor the freight held there will leave the facility until they get answers.

Five firms in Jack Ronan’s Vita Cortex Group recorded combined profits of €7.5m last year.

President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to the solidarity shown by the former workers at the Vita Cortex factory in Cork.

Former Vita Cortex workers will visit Áras an Uachtaráin this afternoon.

The workers who spent more than five months occupying a factory in pursuit of redundancy payments have been invited to dine with the President.

The main firm in the Vita Cortex group recorded losses totalling €1.75m last year, new figures show.

A former Vita Cortex worker who spent five months on a factory sit-in said she is now prepared to go to jail for not paying the household tax.

A few weeks ago, we wondered again why giving out about Gaelic football remains one of the country’s few sustainable growth areas.

Some 1,500 members of Sinn Féin will gather in Killarney this evening for the opening of the party's Árd Fheis.

One of the longest-running industrial relations protests in the history of the State ended in Cork today.

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.

A sit-in at a factory sparked by a row over redundancy payments looks set to come to an end tomorrow afternoon, after 161 days.

With no media or PR advice, Vita Cortex built up an 9,000-strong support base in 20 countries — because people believed in their cause, writes Eoin English

The 24-week sit in at the former Vita Cortex plant in Cork could be nearing its end.

The long-awaited deal to secure the Vita Cortex workers ex-gratia redundancy was finally signed off on yesterday.

Vita Cortex workers are expecting redundancy funds to begin flowing into their bank accounts from today as their marathon 151-day sit-in nears its end.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Jobs Minister Richard Bruton were among those expressing their happiness at the resolution of the row between workers and management at Vita Cortex.

After 139 days of round-the-clock sit-ins, the former employees of Vita Cortex have finally secured a severance deal with their former employer which will allow them to go home within a fortnight.

After their marathon sit-in, former Vita Cortex workers could barely contain their excitement that the dispute was finally over and they could look forward to going home.

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

A 20-week protest by former workers at Vita Cortex has come to an end after union representatives accepted terms for outstanding redundancy pay.

SIPTU members at Vita Cortex have voted unanimously to accept proposals aimed at bringing their 139 day dispute with the company over redundancy payments to an end.

The former Vita Cortex workers are keeping their powder dry after meeting to discuss escalating their almost five-month dispute over redundancy payments.

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.

The board and management of Vita Cortex have rejected mediation proposals aimed at resolving the four-month dispute at the company over redundancy payments.

Vita Cortex management has today stated that it does not accept the solution suggested by mediators.

Former Vita Cortex workers have urged company boss Jack Ronan to accept new recommendations to end their four-month sit-in and let them “go home to their families”.

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.