A LATVIAN ship with nine crew was detained yesterday in Cork harbour after it was alleged the crew had not been paid since January. Those who had been paid were believed to have been given as little as €1 per hour.

DAIRYGOLD has criticised threats by SIPTU to hold industrial action for a second time in two years at its whole milk powder plant in Mallow, even though the union has not formally indicated it will take the action.

THE Government must put people before profit and adopt a more coherent approach to regional development, according to the country's largest trade union.

DAIRYGOLD confirmed yesterday that up to 1,500 jobs will lost in the co-op giant over the next three years.

DAIRYGOLD plans to axe up to 2,000 jobs as part of a three-year rationalisation programme, Tánaiste Mary Harney has been told.

AROUND a dozen flights in and out of Cork Airport were affected by yesterday afternoon’s hour-long meeting of Aer Rianta staff.

Forty-two male security workers at University College Cork have won just over €1m in retrospective payments following a case taken under equality legislation.