35 unpaid workers walk out on 5-star hotel

THIRTY-FIVE unpaid workers at the exclusive Capella Castlemartyr Hotel have walked out, ahead of one of the busiest weekends of the year and amid threats that some of them will also “cause chaos” over the coming days.

Hotel and catering staff at the €80 million resort, half an hour from Cork city, say they had no choice but to quit this week after the recruitment agency, which employs them on behalf of the hotel, said it could not afford to pay them — because the hotel had not paid it in six weeks.

Colin Shannon, who worked as a chef at the hotel, said the situation was “disgusting”.