Angry Lagan Brick workers target Kingscourt roadworks

Furious Lagan Brick workers took to the streets of Kingscourt yesterday (Tuesday), stopping roadworks due to be carried out by the same group that gave them an hour's notice last December before redundancy. For 160 days now, the former Kingscourt Brick factory workers have been protesting at the plant over the manner of parent company Lagan Brick's handling of the closure. At around 7am yesterday (Tuesday) morning, over 20 workers met and protested at the long-overdue resurfacing works to be carried out by Lagan Asphalt, an arm of Lagan Group, contracted by Cavan County Council, on Kingscourt's main street. An area of the street in the town had been sealed off for the works but, on request of the angry workers, activity ceased before 8am. Though the presence of Lagan was seen as "a smack in the face" to the Kingscourt workers, tempers never flared though gardaí were present at the scene. To read the full story see this week's Meath Chronicle.