End of Vita Cortex sit-in expected tomorrow

A sit-in at a factory sparked by a row over redundancy payments looks set to come to an end tomorrow afternoon, after 161 days.

A total of 23 former workers have been sitting in at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork since before last Christmas.

They took the action after they accused the company’s owner Jack Ronan of reneging on an agreement to pay them 2.9% of a week’s pay per year of service.