Vita Cortex workers take redundancy pay protest to owner’s 300-acre stud farm

We are not giving up until you pay up — that was the defiant message from the Vita Cortex workers to their former employer last night after taking their protest to the gates of his home.

Some of the former foam factory workers, who have been occupying the Cork plant for 46 days in pursuit of redundancy payments, staged a peaceful protest outside millionaire businessman Jack Ronan’s sprawling 300-acre Orchardstown Stud farm at Lisronagh, outside Clonmel in Co Tipperary.

However, he sparked a furious reaction when he claimed the company never agreed to the ex gratia redundancy payment.