‘Empty site ideal for new industry in Fermoy’

A 19-ACRE fully serviced IDA site has lain empty for over five years in the north Cork town where 440 job losses have been announced in the last month.

Now local politicians in Fermoy have demanded the Government, IDA and Enterprise Ireland act immediately to bring a strong industry to a town which is part of an expanding employment blackspot in north Cork.

In the last two years, 1,500 jobs have been lost with the closure of Dairygold plants, Greencore and Nestle. A further 440 workers have been slated to go — 200 at BUPA as announced in December and 240 at FCI as announced earlier this week.