Pig producers fight on

PIG producers have vowed to keep up their campaign to prevent the end of October closure of the slaughter line at Galtee Meats in Mitchelstown.

IFA Pigs Committee Chairman Pat O'Keeffe made that clear, when he addressed more than 1,000 people at a rally in the town last Friday to protest at the shedding of another 170 local jobs by Dairygold Co-op.

Pointing to the statute of the Land League patriot John Mandeville, in the town's main square, he said there is still fight in pig producers, who would not give up too easily.