Move to deport hunger striker

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.

John Recto, his wife Liezel and three children, are threatened with immediate deportation after his work visa was not renewed during the course of the industrial action.

Mr Recto has lived in Ireland for eight years and worked throughout that period, apart from the six months of industrial action following his sacking by Green Isle last summer.