Talks continue at weekly newspaper

TALKS are continuing between management and staff at a weekly newspaper in Co Cork amid a second phase of rationalisation which is likely to include cuts to employees’ wages.

The Southern Star, based in Skibbereen, outsourced its printing last summer, with the loss of five jobs.

Sources have indicated that management is now looking for a 6% pay cut across the board and is also to make one of its three staff reporters redundant early next year.