Bacon plant protesters face High Court proceedings

Nine former factory workers are facing High Court proceedings aimed at ending their three-week sit-in at a Cork bacon factory, and also restraining pickets outside the factory owner's home.

The workers claim they have been denied a proper redundancy package but Mr Justice Esmond Smyth was told yesterday that claim is being denied by their former employer, Mr Joe McSweeney, owner of McSweeney Bacon Curers Ltd, Blackpool, Cork.