The Vita Cortex workers hope that a crucial meeting today between the Taoiseach and the Enterprise Minister will result in a breakthrough in their protracted 54-day sit-in.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny met with protesting Vita Cortex workers to tell them he was taking “a personal interest” in their plight, and would be contacting the enterprise minister today for a briefing on Jack Ronan’s finances.

“If I could pick up the phone and tell him to find the redundancy money, I would.”

Taoiseach Enda Kenny met with protesting Vita Cortex workers to tell them he was taking “a personal interest” in their plight, and would be contacting the enterprise minister today for a briefing on Jack Ronan’s finances.

FORMER president and international human rights champion Mary Robinson has sent a message of support to the 32 Vita Cortex workers who have staged a five-week sit-in, in their bid for proper redundancy payments.

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.

ALL but deserted, the cavernous factory building that is Vita Cortex looks the very same as the day its workers downed tools.

IN less than two weeks, dad Ger O’Flynn will be the father of twins.

THE head of the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA) said staff occupying a Cork factory in their fight for redundancy should be focusing on their former employer.

FACTORY workers fighting for redundancy began a sit-in at their plant which closed down yesterday.

“WE’RE not giving up without a fight.”