Sporting public playing their part as workers fight on

Former Vita Cortex workers are currently in extra-time in a fight for redundancy payments — the ‘point nine’, as they call it — on top of their statutory entitlements

In the time Alan Walsh was on Vita Cortex’s payroll, 42 Cheltenham Festivals were ran in the Cotswolds.

A van driver for the company, he might have half listened to the races on the radio as he ferried the factory’s products around Cork city, county and beyond but he’s more of a GAA man than a horse racing enthusiast.