Town faces ‘tough task to create more jobs’

UP to five vacant factory buildings will soon be available in Killarney, but sources indicated, yesterday, it won’t be easy to attract new industries.

The town is to lose 87 jobs, with the imminent closure of the Transmould and Scott Tools plants, accelerating an already downward spiral in industrial employment in the area.

Both companies cited competition from China and other low-cost countries among their reasons to close.