Begg: Irish Ferries row reflects wider problems

The row over outsourcing jobs to cheap foreign staff at Irish Ferries is a harbinger of wider problems in the economy, Congress general secretary David Begg warned today.

As thousands of workers marched through the streets of Dublin and towns and cities across Ireland in solidarity with the ferry workers fighting to keep their jobs, Mr Begg said the turnout showed there was a threshold of decency below which people were not prepared to let anyone be dragged.