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Journalists in Dublin are to hold a rally today outside the offices of the Sunday Tribune to mark the paper's closure and call for better financial help for those made redundant.

The symbolic protest is being organised by the Dublin branch of the National Union of Journalists and starts at 1.15pm.

The union hopes to put pressure on minority shareholder Independent News and Media to offer ex-gratia payments to the 43 affected staff, who face a wait of six to eight months for their statutory redundancy payment .

NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear said INM had a "moral obligation" to offer financial help after it pulled its support for the paper.

The Sunday Tribune's staff will pick up their final pay cheques today. Receiver Jim Luby was brought in to find a new backer in February but no firm offers were made in time.

An Independent News and Media spokesman said the company was willing to meet the NUJ but it had no obligation to make any further payments.

He said the company, which held a 29.9 per cent stake in the Sunday Tribune, had already undertaken to pay the costs of appointing a receiver and paying all staff and contributor costs for the month of February.

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