Cork town ‘abandoned’ as last factory shuts doors

THE Government has been accused of abandoning a once thriving manufacturing town which lost its last major factory yesterday.

The closure of Tytex in Youghal, East Cork, brought to 2,500 the number of manufacturing jobs lost to the historic walled town over the last decade.

Danish-owned Tytex, which developed and made medical textile products at the Springfield Industrial Estate for almost quarter of a century, announced its closure last November citing high production costs, and said it was moving production to eastern Europe and the Far East.