Teagasc has named John Colreavy as director of the Meat Technology Centre, an Enterprise Ireland industry-led ‘one-stop shop’ for meat processing research and technology.

Agriculture and food development authority Teagasc has appointed 75 staff since the end of the moratorium on recruitment last year.

Teagasc plans to establish a ‘Food Innovation Hub’, built on the concept of the Wageningen Food Valley in the Netherlands, but applied to the food industry in and around Cork.