Article: Born into the Thomas Cook sit-in... Chelsea.(News)

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Daily Mail (London)
Article date:
August 5, 2009
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Byline: Helen Bruce

SHE'S just one-day-old but Chelsea was very nearly Thomas Cook's youngest protester, when her mother Avril went into labour during the gardai's dawn raid on the travel agent yesterday.

Avril Boyne, 26, was eight-anda-half months pregnant, and one day from starting her maternity leave, when she joined the sit-in protest over redundancy pay at the Grafton Street store last Friday.

She was sleeping on a sofa in the upstairs office when she was woken yesterday at around 5am by gardai hammering at the door.

Miss Boyne said: 'I went to sleep at around two o'clock this morning and at about ten to five I heard the guys ...

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