Bleak Christmas for Kingscourt Brick workers

While most people were at home enjoying Christmas dinner with the family, a number of the Lagan Brick workers in Kingscourt who are manning the entrance to the plant had a simple dinner at an open air table. Twenty-nine men lost their jobs at the former Kingscourt Brick factory and have launched a 24-hour vigil outside the plant in a quest to get an enhanced severance deal from the company. Full story in this week's Anglo-Celt.