Schering-Plough plant to close with loss of 240 jobs

AS 240 jobs were axed at the Schering-Plough pharmaceutical plant in Bray, Co Wicklow, another 100 jobs were said to be under serious threat last night at Qualceram Shires bathroom products factory in nearby Arklow.

US-based Schering- Plough said it would close its Wicklow operation over the next two years but stressed 1,000 jobs in Brinny, Co Cork; Rathdrum, Co Wicklow; and in Swords, Co Dublin, were safe.

In Belfast, more than 200 workers who were told they were being made redundant, are staging a sit-in at the Visteon car components plants.