South-East to get €500m-a-year economic shot

Up to 2,000 jobs, many indirectly, could be created by a dairy production facility which could boost the economy in the South-East by hundreds of millions of euro annually.

A total of 76 jobs will be available at the Glanbia plant with hundreds more created on farms and other indirect enterprises.

About 450 jobs will come through the construction of the dairy plant at Belview which straddles Waterford City and Co Kilkenny.