Tariffs will close meat plants and mean job losses, warns industry head

If tariffs are introduced on Irish beef exports into the UK, as has been suggested by the UK’s Environment Secretary Michael Gove, then meat plants here will close and there will be job losses is the warning from the director of Meat Industry Ireland.

Cormac Healy told RTÉ’s Today with Sean O’Rourke show that the industry is still hoping for an orderly Brexit with the minimum of disruption.