VIDEO: Poignant tribute to former Waterford Crystal staff

A bleak and dreary landscape is all that is left of the once renowned Waterford Crystal plant outside the city that gave it its name.

What was for decades the pride of the country is now nothing more than a wasteland, and the remnants of a once thriving industry resemble an unkempt graveyard. Ongoing demolition has made parts of the buildings which housed the glass-making plants look like they have been struck by a tsunami.

The original disaster came five years ago for the 1,500 workers when they learned that not only were their jobs gone, but most of their pensions with it.