Protesters angry over Dairygold job losses

MORE than 1,000 people marched through Mitchelstown, Co Cork, yesterday in protest at the decision of Dairygold Co-op to end pig slaughtering at its Galtee plant in the town.

Dairygold recently announced that it was ending primary pig processing with the loss of 170 jobs in Mitchelstown and another 100 in Roscrea, Co Tipperary.

It was part of a major restructuring programme for the near €1 billion turnover co-op, which has now shed more than 1,100 jobs throughout the co-op in the past year.