Plan aims to create jobs at disused industrial site

A plan is to be drawn up for a large, disused industrial site with the aim of creating jobs in Co Kerry at a time when unemployment in the area is rising.

Killarney Technology Innovation Centre (KTI) is to look at ways of restarting activity on the 12-acre site where more than 1,000 people were once employed by the Pretty Polly company on the town’s Park Road.

According to the latest CSO Live Register figures, the number of people signing on in Killarney in January jumped by 206 since December and totals 3,116.