Three unemployed bricklayers remain in jail today after failing to comply with a court order restraining them from picketing a South Dublin building site.
Proceedings against the men were adjourned at the High Court today when Mr Justice Frank Clarke adjourned proceedings for two weeks.
He said if the men are still in prison at the time of the next hearing, arrangements should be made to them to appear in court.
The men have been told they can return to the court at any time to purge their contempt.
Andrew Clarke, Cromlech Fields, Ballybrack; Keith Kelly, Ashlawn Park, Ballybrack and William McClurg, Sallynoggin were sent to prison last Friday for defying a High Court order not to beset, watch or picket the Ballybrack building site.
Collen Construction Ltd, which owns of the site where 77 local authority houses are being built at Wyatville Road/ Laurel Avenue, last week secured committal orders against the men after they refused to undertake not to picket the company's site.
The three have claimed that dozens of local building workers have gone on site looking for work where houses for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Council are being built but none were given a job or a promise of a job.
When the case was briefly mentioned in the High Court today, Mr Dudley Potter, solicitor for the Building and Allied Trades Union (BATU), gave an undertaking on its behalf not to picket or sanction the participation of its membership in industrial action against Collen Construction.