The High Court has continued to Monday next injunctions restraining picketing by electricians at plants owned by Cadbury Ireland and Irish Distillers.
Counsel for the electricians union, the TEEU, told Ms Justice Mary Laffoy yesterday that extensive discussions were taking place in a bid to settle the strike. Counsel said there were difficulties getting instructions related to the TEEU’s response to the injunctions because some of the senior union officials were also at this weekend’s Ictu conference in Tralee.
Lawyers for the companies said they had no difficulty with the cases being adjourned until Monday as long as the injunctions stayed in place.
Ms Justice Laffoy said she had already continued an injunction until Monday in a similar application by Diageo and she would maintain a consistent approach with the Cadbury and Irish Distillers injunctions.