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

Greenpeace activists climbed to the top of Apple’s European headquarters in Cork to protest from the glass rooftop about the company’s sustainable energy policies.

Siptu last night said it had rejected what it described as, a “derisory offer” made to the Vita Cortex workers staging a sit-in at their former employer’s Cork plant.

We are not giving up until you pay up — that was the defiant message from the Vita Cortex workers to their former employer last night after taking their protest to the gates of his home.

Siptu has hit back at golfer John McHenry for how he defended his father and brother-in-law’s role in the bitter Vita Cortex dispute.

UP to 40 workers, who are due to lose their jobs this week, are being deprived of redundancy payments as their employers’ funds have been frozen by the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA).

Leading pharmaceutical GlaxoSmithKline is to lay-off 55 workers at its Cork plant, the company confirmed today.

Boston Scientific, which announced a €21.7m investment in its Cork plant last August, has reported an almost 40% fall in its second quarter earnings.

UP to 130 staff will be made redundant at a Dawn Meats plant in Cork today.

THE IDA was cleared to give a €48.25 million grant to Johnson & Johnson’s new Cork plant, Centocor, by the European Commission yesterday.

An Irish man has been appointed a vice president of the New York-based Moog Corporation, the worldwide aviation and electronics group.

PHARMACEUTICAL giant Pfizer yesterday admitted to being “bemused” by reports of the company planning to secure the soon-to-be-closed ADM Ringaskiddy plant.

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THE Board of Irish Fertiliser Industries and shareholders are to discuss the possible closure of the Co Cork plant

THE life of a worker who died in a fire at the Irish Ispat steel plant last year could have been saved if bosses had paid the 15,000 needed to improve safety, a former official said last night.

The Limerick electronics company Flextronics is to close with the loss of 400 manufacturing jobs.

The Trade Union SIPTU representing the workers at the ISPAT steel plant in Cork are to meet with management of the company following the closure of the