A leading UK trade unionist has visited Greyhound workers in Dublin.

They've been on strike for around 8 weeks now in a row over pay cuts of 35 percent.

Anne Scargill is leading community activist from the North of England and the former wife of trade union leader Arthur Scargill.

He led mineworkers during a year long strike in the mid 1980s.

During her visit to the Clondalkin plant today, Anne Scargill said: “I am here to show solidarity with these men and indicate the support they have from trade unionists in Britain, as well as in Ireland. Thirty years ago, coal miners across Britain were on strike for a year. I know the pressure that these men and their families are under during this time and I wish to stand with them in their struggle for what is right.

“Being involved in a dispute like this can be very hard. I am here to tell them that they are not alone in this struggle and to just keep going until they succeed”.

Accompanying Anne Scargill was a delegation of British trade unionists and political activists. During her visit to the picket line, Anne Scargill, presented a donation to the Greyhound Workers’ Support Fund on behalf of Women Against Pit Closures.