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French protesters delay Irish ferry
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FOUR ARTICS and hundreds of passengers were trapped on an Irish ferry for more than eight hours last week after French protesters refused to let it dock.
A spokesman for Irish Ferries believes they were objecting to the company's employment of cheap labour from eastern EU countries to replace more expensive Irish crew (CM 9 December 2004).
The operator thinks most of the protesters were crew from rival companies SeaFrance and Brittany Ferries. O'Leary International was among Irish hauliers with vehicles on the Normandy: director Charles O'Leary warns repeated disruption could be a problem: "If it was going to be an ongoing affair it would be worse. There are several options for us on this route and we might have to think about using one of the others more often.
Irish Ferries will not pay automatic compensation for the delay "because it was no fault of ours-, but it will look at any cases that arise on an individual basis.