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Over 2,000 workers in Guinness’s Ireland plants plan to strike this Thursday for an undetermined amount of time. The motivation for the strike is the impending closure of the plant in Dundalk, Co Louth; according to union leaders, the closure of one of the company’s oldest plants will leave 147 people without jobs. If production halts, the supplies of stout and other brews made by the company are expected to run out by the end of April...
...effects of the strike—and how long it lasts—remain to be seen. But hopefully, by the time we visit Lonergan’s Bar again the strike will be settled, 147 people in Co Louth will still have jobs and stout will be flowing from the taps. Guinness that is brewed, poured and served in the nation of its birth is a unique nectar, and my mother deserves at least one more half-pint...
...identified the disease in cows and goats at two farms near the eastern town of Olst, Dutch agriculture authorities ordered the slaughter of 20,000 animals within a 1-km radius. The source of infection was traced to cattle imported from Ireland, which confirmed its first cases in County Louth north of Dublin. In Britain dozens of cases were confirmed daily and 514 cases had been certified by week's end. Farmers' gloom deepened as the government's chief scientific adviser feared that the epidemic could spiral out of control and half of Britain's livestock may have...
...biggest prison break in British history triggered one of the largest manhunts ever seen on either side of the Irish border. In Dublin, Irish authorities ordered increased surveillance of the rugged border area to prevent fugitives from reaching traditional sanctuaries in the counties of Sligo, Donegal, Monaghan, Leitrim and Louth. In Ulster, security forces threw a tight five-mile cordon around the prison, while thousands of soldiers and police blocked roads, combed fields and searched houses throughout the week. It was, said one police officer involved in the search, "like trying to corner a pack of wolves...
ROBERT W. LOUTH Newton, Mass...