‘Heartbreaking — there is no other word’

“WE sat here like a family looking out for each other..

‘Heartbreaking — there is no other word’

Our partners, children and grandchildren have visited us every day and we had a family Christmas in the strangest of circumstances. When Amy and Chloe were born we rejoiced like a family because that is what we are — a family.”

These are the words of Greg Marshall, one of 32 workers engaged in a sit-in at the Vita Cortex factory in Cork, describing in a blog the spirit and determination that has driven him and his colleagues to occupy the plant on the Kinsale Road.

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