Hundreds plan march to protest Greencore redundancy handling

HUNDREDS of people are to march through the streets of Mallow on September 23 to protest at the way one of the town’s biggest former employers has handled the redundancy package for its workers.

Former Greencore Irish Sugar employees, their families and local representatives will gather at Navigation Street in the north Cork town at 2.30pm and march to the town hall where the organisers hope they will be addressed by a number of invited politicians and trade union representatives.

The march has already been given the greenlight by gardaí according to the chairman of the former workers’ group, Kieran Buckley, and the workers are in the process of creating a number of banners highlighting their plight.