Sit-in begins at Target Express in Little Island

18 Target Express workers have begun a sit-in at the company's plant in Little Island. The workers are owed two weeks' wages as well as redundancy money after their jobs were terminated when a receiver was appointed to the company.

The sit-in comes after news that around 400 jobs are to be lost because Revenue Commissioners rejected a plan to pay off the Target Express's debt and froze the company's bank accounts.

Target Express has several big clients including Smyth Toys and A-Wear and they also act as a sponsor to the Tyrone inter-county teams. 300 of the jobs will be lost in the Republic of Ireland while the remaining 100 will go in the North.

The company was founded by Seamus McBrien in 1988 and operates from Mulhuddart in Dublin while there are a number of depots across Ireland including that at Little Island.