OFFICES ABROAD:DEPARTMENT OF Foreign Affairs staff in Dublin, Brussels and London joined picket lines outside their places of work yesterday as part of the one-day strike against Government plans to cut pay.
Blair Horan, general secretary of the Civil Public and Services Union (CPSU), said an average of 25 workers manned the picket line outside the department’s headquarters at Iveagh House in Dublin.
In Brussels, about 20 people joined the picket outside the offices of the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the EU. The premises, located on Rue Froissart, houses Ireland’s largest diplomatic mission abroad.
In London, about 25 Department of Foreign Affairs staff picketed Ireland’s passport office on Brompton Road. Some 400 of the department’s employees are members of the CPSU, Mr Horan said.