Airport workers sit-in over redundancy pay

As its directors held further talks yesterday to try to save Galway Airport, a group of workers started a sit-in in the terminal out of fear they will not receive their redundancy entitlements.

However, they disrupted their industrial action last night to help a flight of surgeons involved in an emergency organ transplant.

The airport workers facilitated the plane carrying a British team of surgeons involved in an emergency organ transplant, before resuming their sit-in.