Some fella there has something like 40 years service …… He must have seen some clowns in government in his time …… Shame a grafter like that gets treated like this.

The workers were supposed to buckle – they didn’t. An inspiration to other workers.

It’s a national disgrace that these Folk have to put up such a battle for what are entitlements,if only the Govt had the same strength and determination,this will end but who is next? Every union in the country should have waded in.its a massive plus on a cv to have such an insistence for your rights.

These guys are most inspiring. I hope all working class people support this fight.

Love this, hope they get sorted this time. They shouldn’t have had to put up with all this. Hope their strength and determination yields positive results.

One thing I note from all this is the public’s unending support that they get their entitlements. However when public servants and politicians claim their entitlements well that’s a whole different ball game isn’t it.

Just a thought. No need to hammer me for it.

It’s about time for these talks 3&1/2 months DISGRACEFUL
Best if luck to you all

Ok john smith good talking to you ,yes I’m reading your responses but you don’t seem to want to hear my thoughts or opinions unless they align with yours and I’m too closely connected to this to argue on legal technicalities,it’s wrong plain and simple and jack Ronan could right this mess by just writing a cheque,but thankyou for showing passion and interest and sympathy for the workers,as for us daughters we are merely fighting for our dads whom I’m sure we can both agree john have been abused here by the directors of this company,legally or illegally abused doesn’t change how they have been treated.

If anyone deserves a bailout these guys do
Dignified , defiant & determined
A contrast to the moaning crybabies Involved in some other protests

Oh sorry john smith got your name wrong in my last post because I was so emotional lol,excuse the emotional response but at least I have the common decency and humanity in me to stand up for retirement aged people who are being robbed blind,I see you don’t share my sensibilities ,your personal attack of my emotional attachment to this case speaks volumes of your own sense of fairness sir.

Sorry that was supposed to say and you want to find fault with a handfull of them walking up and down outside his house obviously.

Also john dunne the older director whose house was picketed ,you do know he is the father in law of jack Ronan who faired handsomely from all of this and tried to bribe the workers to go home from the sit in on the first week so they could remove the other assets from the plant,1500 euro he offered them to go home so he could rob them some more and told them they could continue their picket on Monday ,yeah john he sounds like a victim here.A lot of these people are retirement age and this older years retired md and his son inlaw are robbing them of their life’s work,and you want to sit and defend a handful of them walking up and down in front of his house,there are no words,I can’t even extend my energies to debate with you,I can see its pointless.

John smith you may be sick of the rhetoric ,but unfortunately for myself and other family members of the workers we don’t get to comment on a blog and forget about this for the rest of the day were living it.The Taoiseach himself aswel as the lrc have publicly stated that the responsibility lays with the employer to pay these workers what they are owed and yes we have grave concerns with the lack of any direct communications from odce in regard investigations as his comment was that their was not sufficient grounds AT THIS TIME for an investigation,that was it.I refuse to stick my head in the sand and swallow what I’m fed from odce when both the Taoiseach and lrc are of the opinion that the responsibility rests with the owners and I don’t appreciate you trying to bully me out of having my opinions on a public forum.I do not need to get a grip and I assure you I am very familiar with the facts of this case,you say you have sympathy for the plight of these workers but you do not seem to want to accept their truth.were all well aware of the opinion of odce and we are strongly suspect of it,so if it makes you feel better to berate me for my opinions what can I do about it,personally with all I’ve seen in these last months I would question anyone in authority to prove a statement after they make it because there is a lot about this case and the moving around of monies and assets that’s deeply suspect,I myself place no lesser value on a moral argument versus a legal argument ,and if the laws of the land uphold this behavior then they are not serving any purpose for employees,good day to you sir,let’s agree to disagree because I refuse to get into a txting war online with you,it’s not conducive to anything positive.

Lots of sympathy for their plight, but let’s get facts right. They are entitled to statutory redundancy and they got it. The company has to prove inability to pay and it did, otherwise dept would not have paid. They are fighting for fulfillment of ex gratia commitment made by owners of company which owners deny. Seems like they have no legal entitlement and owners have no legal obligation.

Ah Leah is probably your name “John smith” is most Likely one of the many Id’s used by a big fat nasty old troll taking the piss!