Risk to Celtic Linen’s 380 jobs

A company which has been a market leader in the supply of linen to hotels, hospitals and the HSE, has gone into examinership, the High Court was told yesterday.

Celtic Linen, which employs 380 people in Drinagh, Co Wexford, sought the protection of the court through examinership because it had become loss-making in recent years.

Barrister Kelley Smith said the business had been in operation since 1926 and had been supplying bed linen, towelling and table linen to the hospitality sector and scrub suits, patient wear and ward linen to the healthcare sectors.