Motorists in Dublin are being warned that the N7 Naas Rd is closed both ways at the Green Isle this morning after a suspect device was found in the area.

ICTU general secretary David Begg has written to the Naturalisation and Immigration Service seeking a stay on the deportation of a Filipino worker who took part in the Green Isle hunger strike.

A GREEN ISLE shop steward who begins a hunger strike outside the company’s Naas plant this afternoon has vowed his protest will continue until the six-month long dispute is resolved.

Workers at the Green Isle plant in Co. Kildare, who have been engaging in a strike for the last six months, are expected to begin a hunger strike tomorrow.

Union officials take to the streets of Naas today in support of striking workers in the Co. Kildare town.

Forty workers at Green Isle Foods in Co Kildare are mounting pickets on the Naas plant this morning in protest at job cuts.

TWO of the country’s leading food and drinks companies are facing disruptive strike action by their staff within days.

GREEN may be the colour traditionally associated with Irish tourism but the industry has some way to go before it can claim its environmental practices are of a similar hue.

A FOOD company plans to send fish caught off the Irish coast to England for processing and then bring its Donegal Catch all the way back again to sell in Ireland — making a round trip of 550 miles.

GREEN ISLE Foods is to close its fish breading facility in Boyle, Co Roscommon, resulting in the loss of up to 78 jobs.

The New Year sees the march to the right of the FF/PD Junta, to the tune of big business and vested affluent interest groups.

THE burgeoning Lynch Hotel Group yesterday bought the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin for €11 million from the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group, who are to build a Jurys Inn at London’s Heathrow airport.