‘Voters will not forget how workers were shortchanged’

MAURICE SHORTALL worked at Comerama for almost 30 years.

The ghost of the once-booming textiles plant still haunts him and his 162 former colleagues since the factory closed a year ago.

Just before Christmas 2002, 163 workers were handed their P45s following a slump in demand for the yarn products manufactured there. Mr Shortall was part of a delegation to Government buildings in Dublin within the past fortnight which was due to meet Tánaiste Mary Harney.