Sun, 23 May, 2021 - 09:11 We re putting down the placards and walking away with our heads held high : Cork workers reflect as Debenhams dispute finally comes to an end
Some of the ex-Debenhams workers outside the former Debenhams store on Patrick s St., Cork, at the end of their 406 day struggle for justice.
Breda Graham After over 406 days of picketing for a just redundancy settlement, former Debenhams workers put down their placards this week and are walking away with their “heads held high”.
It comes as a majority of former Debenhams staff voted to accept the offer of a €3 million training fund.
Former employees said that the settlement does not come anywhere close to the honouring of the four weeks’ pay per year’s service redundancy that was signed off with their former employer, but rather that they had fought “as hard as was possible”.
Former Debenhams employees accept settlement offer
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Here s what to expect from tonight s Reeling in the Years
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Reeling in the Years 2012: Putin, Katie Taylor and Wagon Wheel Netflix arrived in Ireland and Cork ladies football team enjoyed success on top of success
Olympic gold for Katie Taylor in 2012
Sun, 25 Apr, 2021 - 21:55
Caroline Delaney
You think it s going to be a safe bit of nostalgia sure weren t we all hilarious pixie heads who barely knew what Netflix even was back then?
A look at how things have progressed over the years and at how we re all grown up now.
And then, bam, the programme name becomes more of a warning as we re the ones left reeling. Reeling in bafflement at how warning signs were there and nobody heeded. Reeling from the double, triple whammy of political, financial, and corporate jiggery-pokery that played out in such fateful ways.
Updated: 25 Apr 2021, 21:42
RTE viewers have said that Reeling in the Years make them cry every single time as they look back at 2012 highlights.
Tonight s episode of the popular RTE show featured the hits and headlines of 2012, when Wicklow’s Katie Taylor won boxing gold for Ireland at the London Olympics and singer Nathan Carter had a breakthrough hit with Wagon Wheel.
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In America, Barack Obama won a second term as US President.
It was also the year when the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground on the coast of Italy.
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner completed a world record freefall parachute jump from a height of 38.9km above the Earth, and NASA scientists celebrated the success of the Curiosity Rover mission to Mars.