Let Them Eat Cake

They are, they say, in this for the long haul, but there’s a real sense down at the first day of the Tesco strike that common sense might just win the day.

With cutbacks at the supermarket giant putting the pressure on 250 pre-1996 workers to effectively tear up their old contracts, the nationwide strike came to Greystones with a bang today.

It also came with lots of yummy cakes, tea and coffee, thanks largely to those lovely people at Donnybrook Fair. And the mighty Gemma Kinsella.

Nice.

In the meantime, John McGowan took the pics, and we also managed to get a few words from the beautiful Colm…

You can find out just why these hardy Greystonians are taking this backs-against-the-wall action in our Wednesday interview here.