A HUGE investment programme will create up to 120 new jobs at a pigmeat processing plant in Edenderry, Co Offaly and secures 250 others that were put at risk following a fire at the plant last year.

THE owners of the pigmeat business formerly owned by Glanbia must return a price increase to pig producers immediately, according to the Irish Farmers Association.

GLANBIA announced yesterday that it had completed the sale of its pigmeat business to a management team for €35 million.

GLANBIA has entered negotiations for a possible sale of its meats business to a team of senior managers.

WORKERS at the Glanbia pig meat processing plant in Edenderry, Co Offaly, which was destroyed by fire, have backed a company contingency plan that guarantees them employment.

All 280 staff at Glanbia Meats have been offered alternative employment, the company said tonight.

LONGFORD Town have been hit with a €6,000 fine and six-point deduction by the FAI which leaves them bottom of the eircom League Premier Division.

The eircom League has been rocked by another registration fiasco.

Longford Town will press ahead with High Court action against Bohemians unless the Dublin club agrees that its new manager, Stephen Kenny, takes no part in Saturday’s FAI Cup tie between the two sides.