Two thousand, three hundred workers at the Waterford Crystal factories in Waterford city and Dungarvan went on strike today, and there are no plans for talks to end the dispute.

Report shows pickets outside the Waterford Crystal factories.

Interview with Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU) Chief Shop Steward, Jimmy Kelly, on what it would take to get a return to work.

Pickets outside the factories.

To camera Michael Ryan.

Interview with Brian Patterson, Assistant Chief Executive, Waterford Crystal, on the company's efforts to return to profitability and the fact that no talks have so far been arranged.

The reporter is Michael Ryan.

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