IDA accused of neglecting mid-west

THE Mayor of Limerick last night issued a ‘shape up or ship out’ warning to the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) after Limerick and the mid-west drew a blank with new industrial jobs during 2005.

Mayor Diarmuid Scully said the mid-west was conspicuously absent from the regional spread of 12,605 new jobs in IDA-supported companies.

“It is now more than 10 years since the IDA was responsible for bringing a major industry to Limerick and that was Johnson & Johnson at Plassey Technological Park,” he said.